Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other PapersTicknor and Fields, 1862 - 432 páginas |
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... e . the stochastic , wherein he was seldom mistaken as to future events , as well public as private , but not apt to discover any presages or superstition . " Dr. Johnson affirms that " it is not on the xvi BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
... e . the stochastic , wherein he was seldom mistaken as to future events , as well public as private , but not apt to discover any presages or superstition . " Dr. Johnson affirms that " it is not on the xvi BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
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... discover some skill , and scarce any kind of knowledge , profane or sacred , ab- struse or elegant , which he does not appear to have cultivated with success " : and he also declares that " there is scarcely a writer to be found , whose ...
... discover some skill , and scarce any kind of knowledge , profane or sacred , ab- struse or elegant , which he does not appear to have cultivated with success " : and he also declares that " there is scarcely a writer to be found , whose ...
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... discover those expressions he hath left in his creatures , and the obvious effects of No danger nature : there is no danger to profound these in attempt mysteries , no sanctum sanctorum in philosophy . the hand of The world was made to ...
... discover those expressions he hath left in his creatures , and the obvious effects of No danger nature : there is no danger to profound these in attempt mysteries , no sanctum sanctorum in philosophy . the hand of The world was made to ...
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... discover . ^ And then at last , when homeward I shall drive Rich with the spoils of nature to my hive , There will I sit like that industrious fly , Buzzing thy praises , which shall never die , Till death abrupts them , and succeeding ...
... discover . ^ And then at last , when homeward I shall drive Rich with the spoils of nature to my hive , There will I sit like that industrious fly , Buzzing thy praises , which shall never die , Till death abrupts them , and succeeding ...
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... discover the fougade or powder - plot , contrived a miscarriage in the letter . I like the victory of '88 the better for that one occurrence , which 13 . Ex . ii . Gen. Xxxvii . our enemies imputed to our dishonour , and the partiality ...
... discover the fougade or powder - plot , contrived a miscarriage in the letter . I like the victory of '88 the better for that one occurrence , which 13 . Ex . ii . Gen. Xxxvii . our enemies imputed to our dishonour , and the partiality ...
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Página 348 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 339 - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. 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 146 - We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason, and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Página 139 - 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 ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony, which intellectually...
Página 345 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Página 239 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 344 - Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.
Página 345 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity ; who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? 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.
Página 343 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Página 146 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...