 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they shoiild say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born;' as the poets speak of Saturn : and, as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater 4 towards... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 678 pages
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 686 pages
...great deal men should say there ivas no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
 | 1878 - 616 pages
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poeta speak of Saturn;" the gods, he infers, have a similar preference, and hate superstition worse... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...rather a great deal men shruld say there was no such a man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the con10 tumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born;' as the poets speak of Saturn : and, as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater4 towards men.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 pages
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children * as soon as they were born," as the poets speak of Saturn ; and, as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 pages
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born. Quoted by Lord Bacon in his "Essay of Superstition." .— AD 60-120. This celebrated Stoic said : You... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...rather a great deal, men should say there was no such a man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say there was one Plutarch, that would eat his children as soon OB they were born ;" as the poets speak of Saturn : and as the contumely is greater towards God, so... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 254 pages
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
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... unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely... 
