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" There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received... "
Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Page 89
by Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pages
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to...superstition to religion makes it the more deformed; and ae wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty...
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Lawlessness, sacerdotalism, and ritualism, discussed in six letters

Malcolm MacColl - 1875 - 566 pages
...Popish. And as to the danger of superstition, we have need to be reminded of Bacon's warning, that "there is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received : therefore, good care would be had that (as it fareth...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to...go farthest from the superstition formerly received ; 5 therefore care would6 be had that (as it f areth in ill purgings) the good be not taken away with...
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Typical selections from the best English authors, with ..., Volume 1

English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to...superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received; therefore care would be had that (as it fareth in...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for, as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, 4S so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed. And as wholesome meat...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing : for as it addeth deformity to...the superstition formerly received : therefore care would be had, that, as it fareth in ill purgings, the good be not taken away with the bad, which commonly...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and religious works

Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pages
...superstition to religion makes it the more deformed. And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms,.so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty...superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest, from the superstition formerly received ; therefore care would be had* that (as it fareth...
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The essays, i-(lviii) or, Counsels civil and moral of Francis lord ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to...There is a Superstition in avoiding Superstition, 16 when men think to do best if they go furthest from the Superstition formerly received; therefore...
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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1878 - 790 pages
...lucre, and barbarous times, specially with calamities, and disasters. Superstition without his vaile is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to an Ape, to be BO like a man; So the similitude of superstition to Religion, makes it the more deformed. And as wholesome...
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The Essays (I-LVIII) Or, Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to...petty observances. There is a Superstition in avoiding Superstition,16 when men think to do best if they go furthest from the Superstition formerly received;...
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