 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1833 - 844 pages
...contains so much in a few words, and is so much to the point, that we will extract a part of it. " The master of superstition is the " people, and in all superstition wise " men follow fools ; an;l arguments are " fitted to practice in a reversed order. " The causes of superstition are pleasing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...many states, and bringeth in a new " primum mobile," that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people, and in all...arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order. It was gravely said, by some of the prelates in the council of Trent, where the doctrine of the schoolmen... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...many states, and bringeth in a new " prim urn mo" bile," that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people, and in all...arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order. It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the council of Trent, where the doctrine of the schoolmen... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...arealways handling holy things, but without feeling ; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end. 60. The master of superstition is the people. And in all superstition, wise men follow fools. % 61. In removing superstitions, care would be had, that (as it.fareth in ill purgings,) the good be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...always handling holy things, but without feeling ; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end. 60. The master of superstition is the people. And in all superstition, wise men follow fools. Y 2 61. In removing superstitions, care should be had, that, as it fareth in ill purgings, the good... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...always handling holy things, but without feeling ; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end. 60. The master of superstition is the people. And in all superstition, wise men follow fools. Y 2 i 61. In removing superstitions, care should be had, that, as it fareth in ill purgings, the good... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...of many states ; and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people ; and in...arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order. It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the Council of Trent, where the doctrine of the schoolmen... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...many states, and bringeth in a new " primum mobile," that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people, and in all...arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order. It was gravely said, by some of the prelates in the council of Trent, where the doctrine of the schoolmen... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...many states, and bringeth in a new " primum mobile," that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people, and in all...arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order. It was gravely said, by some of the prelates in the council of Trent, where the doctrine of the schoolmen... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...always handling holy things, but without feeling ; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end. 24. The master of superstition is the people. And in all superstition, wise men follow fools. 2,5. In removing superstitions, care would be had, that, as it fareth in ill purgings, the good be... | |
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But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. T*he master of superstition is the people ; and in all superstition wise men follow fools ; and arguments are fitted... 
