Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend; Christian Morals; Urn-burial and Other PapersRoberts brothers, 1889 - 440 páginas |
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... Devil himself : had he read such a Lecture in Paradise as he did at Delphos , we had better known our selves , nor had we stood in fear to know him . I know He is wise in all , wonderful in what we conceive , but far more in what we ...
... Devil himself : had he read such a Lecture in Paradise as he did at Delphos , we had better known our selves , nor had we stood in fear to know him . I know He is wise in all , wonderful in what we conceive , but far more in what we ...
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... Devil and Spirits have no exact tune . Ephemerides ; and that is a more particular and obscure method of His Providence , directing the operations of individuals and single Essences : this we call Fortune , that serpentine and crooked ...
... Devil and Spirits have no exact tune . Ephemerides ; and that is a more particular and obscure method of His Providence , directing the operations of individuals and single Essences : this we call Fortune , that serpentine and crooked ...
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... Devil . The villany of that Spirit takes a hint of Infidelity from our Studies , and , by demon- strating a naturality in one way , makes us mis- trust a miracle in another . Thus , having perused the Archidoxis and read the secret ...
... Devil . The villany of that Spirit takes a hint of Infidelity from our Studies , and , by demon- strating a naturality in one way , makes us mis- trust a miracle in another . Thus , having perused the Archidoxis and read the secret ...
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... Devil therefore made the quære , Where was then the miracle in the days of Moses ? the Israelites saw but that in his time , the Natives of those Countries behold in ours . Thus the Devil played at Chess with me , and yielding a Pawn ...
... Devil therefore made the quære , Where was then the miracle in the days of Moses ? the Israelites saw but that in his time , the Natives of those Countries behold in ours . Thus the Devil played at Chess with me , and yielding a Pawn ...
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... Devil would have had Him done in the Wilderness , of Stones into Bread , compared to this , will scarce deserve the name of a Miracle : though indeed , to speak properly , there is not one Miracle greater than another , they being ...
... Devil would have had Him done in the Wilderness , of Stones into Bread , compared to this , will scarce deserve the name of a Miracle : though indeed , to speak properly , there is not one Miracle greater than another , they being ...
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Página 166 - Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others ; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven.
Página 46 - For my part, I have ever believed and do now know that there are witches: they that doubt of these, do not only deny them, but spirits; and are obliquely and upon consequence a sort not of infidels, but atheists.
Página 108 - 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 sounds in the ears of GOD.
Página 10 - Heresie: it may be cancell'd for the present; but revolution of time, and the like aspects from Heaven, will restore it, when it will flourish till it be condemned again. For as though there were a Metempsuchosis, and the soul of one man passed into another, Opinions do find, after certain Revolutions, men and minds like those that first begat them.
Página 52 - ... we live the life of plants, the life of animals, the life of men, and at last the life of spirits...
Página 25 - ... that general visitation of God, who saw that all that he had made was good, that is, conformable to his will, which abhors deformity, and is the rule of order and beauty. There is no deformity but in monstrosity, wherein, notwithstanding, there is a kind of beauty; nature so ingeniously contriving the irregular parts, as they become sometimes more remarkable than the principal fabric.
Página 10 - Plato's year: every man is not only himself; there hath been many Diogenes, and as many Timons, though but few of that name: men are liv'd over again, the world is now as it was in ages past; there was none then, but there hath been some one since that parallels him, and is, as it were, his revived self.
Página 9 - Where we desire to be informed, 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
Página 268 - Aliquis vir bonus nobis eligendus est, ac semper ante oculos habendus, ut sic tanquam illo spectante vivamus, et omnia tanquam illo vidente faciamus.
Página 20 - The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man: 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts. Without this, the world is still as though it had not been, or as it was before the sixth day, when as yet there was not a creature that could conceive or say there was a world. The wisdom of God receives small honor from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works: those highly magnify...