Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian MoralsWilliam Pickering, 1845 - 388 páginas |
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... doth not advantage them ; or if diffentaneous thereunto , it no way overthrows them . It was penned in fuch a place , and with fuch difadvantage , that ( I protest ) from the first setting of pen unto paper , I had not the affistance of ...
... doth not advantage them ; or if diffentaneous thereunto , it no way overthrows them . It was penned in fuch a place , and with fuch difadvantage , that ( I protest ) from the first setting of pen unto paper , I had not the affistance of ...
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... doth herein my zeal fo far make me forget the general charity I owe unto humanity , as rather to hate than pity Turks , infidels , and ( what is worse ) Jews ; rather contenting myself to enjoy that happy ftyle , than maligning those ...
... doth herein my zeal fo far make me forget the general charity I owe unto humanity , as rather to hate than pity Turks , infidels , and ( what is worse ) Jews ; rather contenting myself to enjoy that happy ftyle , than maligning those ...
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... fimilitude of a tri- angle , comprehended in a square , doth fomewhat illuftrate the trinity of our fouls , and that the triple unity of God ; for + 2 Pet . iii . 8 . there is in us not three , but a trinity Religio Medici . 29.
... fimilitude of a tri- angle , comprehended in a square , doth fomewhat illuftrate the trinity of our fouls , and that the triple unity of God ; for + 2 Pet . iii . 8 . there is in us not three , but a trinity Religio Medici . 29.
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... doth the will of his Father , " fhall be faved ; certainly our wills must be our performances , and our intents make out our actions ; otherwise our pious labours fhall find anxiety in our graves , and our best endeavours not hope , but ...
... doth the will of his Father , " fhall be faved ; certainly our wills must be our performances , and our intents make out our actions ; otherwise our pious labours fhall find anxiety in our graves , and our best endeavours not hope , but ...
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... doth sometimes pervert , to acquaint the world with his Of that controlling ordinance they move , And need not his immediate hand who first Prescribed their course , to regulate it now . * The Lord of all , himself through all diffus'd ...
... doth sometimes pervert , to acquaint the world with his Of that controlling ordinance they move , And need not his immediate hand who first Prescribed their course , to regulate it now . * The Lord of all , himself through all diffus'd ...
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Página 379 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 183 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.
Página 150 - I feel not in myself those common antipathies that I can discover in others: those national repugnances do not touch me, nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch...
Página 117 - He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period...
Página 364 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night,...
Página 320 - Unthinking heads, who have not learned to be alone, are in a prison to themselves, if they be not also with others : whereas, on the contrary, they whose thoughts are in a fair, and hurry within, are sometimes fain to retire into company, to be out of the crowd of themselves.
Página 196 - Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
Página 88 - ... that middle form that links those two together, and makes good the method of God and nature that jumps not from extremes, but unites the incompatible distances by some middle and participating natures.
Página 363 - It is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person, and it is visible to us who are alive. Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a three days...
Página 169 - The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind; Earth smiles around, with boundless bounty blest, And Heaven beholds its image in his breast.