Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a FriendS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882 - 196 páginas |
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... diseases without a miracle . Again , having seen some experiments of bitumen , and having read far more of naphtha , he whispered to my curiosity the fire of the altar might be natural , and bade me mistrust a miracle in Elias , when he ...
... diseases without a miracle . Again , having seen some experiments of bitumen , and having read far more of naphtha , he whispered to my curiosity the fire of the altar might be natural , and bade me mistrust a miracle in Elias , when he ...
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... diseases , in that other world , the truest microcosm , the womb of our mother ; for besides that general and common existence we are conceived to hold in our chaos , and whilst we sleep within the bosom of our causes , we enjoy a being ...
... diseases , in that other world , the truest microcosm , the womb of our mother ; for besides that general and common existence we are conceived to hold in our chaos , and whilst we sleep within the bosom of our causes , we enjoy a being ...
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... disease upon me , whereby I might not call myself as wholesome a morsel for the worms as any . Sect . 41. - Some , upon the courage of a fruitful issue , wherein , as in the truest chronicle , they seem to outlive themselves , can with ...
... disease upon me , whereby I might not call myself as wholesome a morsel for the worms as any . Sect . 41. - Some , upon the courage of a fruitful issue , wherein , as in the truest chronicle , they seem to outlive themselves , can with ...
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... disease , nor any poniards in death itself , like those in the way or prologue unto it . " Emori nolo , sed me esse mortuum nihil curo ; " I would not die , but care not to be dead . Were I of Cæsar's religion , 62 I should be of his ...
... disease , nor any poniards in death itself , like those in the way or prologue unto it . " Emori nolo , sed me esse mortuum nihil curo ; " I would not die , but care not to be dead . Were I of Cæsar's religion , 62 I should be of his ...
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... loss , misfortune , or disease ; what frenzy were it to term this a punishment , rather than an extremity of mercy , and to groan under the rod of his judgments rather than admire the sceptre of his mercies ! There- 70 RELIGIO MEDICI .
... loss , misfortune , or disease ; what frenzy were it to term this a punishment , rather than an extremity of mercy , and to groan under the rod of his judgments rather than admire the sceptre of his mercies ! There- 70 RELIGIO MEDICI .
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Términos y frases comunes
actions affection ancient angels antiquity apprehension Aristotle ashes behold believe body bones Brancaster buried burning burnt Cæsar charity chiromancy Christ Christian church Commodus common conceive condemn confess conjecture corruption creatures Cuthred dead death Democritus deny desire devil disease divinity Doctor of Medicine doth dream earth endeavours essence Euripides eyes faith fear felicity fire flames friends grave happy hath heaven hell Heraclitus heresy Hippocrates honour hope HYDRIOTAPHIA Iceni immortality interment judgment Julius Cæsar live Lucan mercy methinks miracle monuments mortality nature never noble Norwich obscure observed opinion ourselves outlive passion Patroclus persons Pharsalia philosophy piece Plato Plutarch pyre Pythagoras reason relicks RELIGIO MEDICI religion Roman Saviour scarce Scripture Sect seems sense sepulchral sleep soul spirits Tacitus thee thereof things thou thought tion truly truth unto urns Vespasian vice virtue vulgar whereby wherein wisdom
Pasajes populares
Página 157 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon.
Página 153 - In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
Página 157 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Página 155 - The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designs. To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our beliefs. We whose generations are ordained in this setting part of time...
Página 11 - I could never hear the AveMary bell* without an elevation, or think it a sufficient warrant, because they erred in one circumstance, for me to err in all, that is, in silence and dumb contempt ; whilst therefore they directed their devotions to her, I offered mine to God, and rectified the errors of their prayers, by rightly ordering mine own.
Página 98 - The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any.
Página 154 - What song the syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution.
Página 98 - Ruat calum, fiat voluntas tua, salveth all ; so that, whatsoever happens, it is but what our daily prayers desire. In brief, I am content ; and what should providence add more ? Surely this is it we call happiness, and this do I enjoy ; with this I am happy in a dream, and as content to enjoy a happiness in a fancy, as others in a more apparent truth and reality.
Página 99 - And surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere dreams, to those of the next, as the phantasms of the night, to the conceit of the day.
Página 157 - In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...