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Page 82
OF ATHEISM , I had rather believe all the fables in the legends , and the Talmud ,
and the Alcoran , than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and , therefore ,
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism , because bis ordinary works ...
OF ATHEISM , I had rather believe all the fables in the legends , and the Talmud ,
and the Alcoran , than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and , therefore ,
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism , because bis ordinary works ...
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It were to be wished that all men did believe , which they have all great reason to
do , that the consumption and spending of our time will be the great inquisition of
the last and terrible day ; when there shall be a more strict enquiry how the most ...
It were to be wished that all men did believe , which they have all great reason to
do , that the consumption and spending of our time will be the great inquisition of
the last and terrible day ; when there shall be a more strict enquiry how the most ...
Page 184
And yet there is too much reason to fear , that in so frequent confessions and as
frequent absolutions , there would not still remain the commission of the same
sins in the same person , if they did not play with repentance , and believe they ...
And yet there is too much reason to fear , that in so frequent confessions and as
frequent absolutions , there would not still remain the commission of the same
sins in the same person , if they did not play with repentance , and believe they ...
Page 202
... I cannot be judge in my own interest : but to take what belongs to another man ,
because I know not who hath done the like to me , is so contrary to all the ele .
ments of equity , that no man can pretend to repent and to believe it together .
... I cannot be judge in my own interest : but to take what belongs to another man ,
because I know not who hath done the like to me , is so contrary to all the ele .
ments of equity , that no man can pretend to repent and to believe it together .
Page 203
... that it cannot fall into the mind of man erdowed with reason , though void of
religion . Therefore it cannot be a breach of charity to believe that men of that
temper , who pretend to be sorry and to repent the having done that which they
find not ...
... that it cannot fall into the mind of man erdowed with reason , though void of
religion . Therefore it cannot be a breach of charity to believe that men of that
temper , who pretend to be sorry and to repent the having done that which they
find not ...
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Page 125 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Page 118 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 18 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupateth it...
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Page 201 - DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature.
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| Title | Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2 Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Publisher | Wells and Lilly, Court-Street, 1820 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 539 pages |
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