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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... virtue without a reel or stagger to the circumference . * IV . As there were many re- formers , fo likewise there were many re- formations ; every country proceeding in a particular way and method , according as their national intereft ...
... virtue without a reel or stagger to the circumference . * IV . As there were many re- formers , fo likewise there were many re- formations ; every country proceeding in a particular way and method , according as their national intereft ...
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... virtue in us ; for obfti- nacy in a bad cause is but conftancy in a and want good . And herein I muft accuse those of my own religion , for there is not any of fuch a fugitive faith , fuch an unstable belief , as a Christian ; none that ...
... virtue in us ; for obfti- nacy in a bad cause is but conftancy in a and want good . And herein I muft accuse those of my own religion , for there is not any of fuch a fugitive faith , fuch an unstable belief , as a Christian ; none that ...
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... the life and radical heat of fpirits , and thofe effences that know not the virtue of the fun ; a fire quite contrary to the fire of hell : this is that See Appendix E. gentle heat that brooded on the waters , Gen. i 82 Religio Medici .
... the life and radical heat of fpirits , and thofe effences that know not the virtue of the fun ; a fire quite contrary to the fire of hell : this is that See Appendix E. gentle heat that brooded on the waters , Gen. i 82 Religio Medici .
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... virtue is her own reward , is but a cold principle , and not able to maintain our variable refolutions in a constant and settled way of goodness . I have practised that honeft artifice of force by * This confideration is applied with ...
... virtue is her own reward , is but a cold principle , and not able to maintain our variable refolutions in a constant and settled way of goodness . I have practised that honeft artifice of force by * This confideration is applied with ...
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... virtue , that I could serve her without a livery ; yet not in that refolved and venerable way , but that the frailty of my nature , upon an easy temptation , might be induced to forget her . The life therefore and spirit of all our ...
... virtue , that I could serve her without a livery ; yet not in that refolved and venerable way , but that the frailty of my nature , upon an easy temptation , might be induced to forget her . The life therefore and spirit of all our ...
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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.