Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christion morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papersW. Pickering, 1835 |
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Página 158 - And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth ; and the mule that was under him went away.
Página 152 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Página 155 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Página 389 - ... and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth...
Página 137 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Página 64 - Virtues and Vices. Think not that Morality is Ambulatory ; that Vices in one age are not Vices in another ; or that Virtues, which are under the everlasting Seal of right Reason, may be Stamped by Opinion.
Página 170 - The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Página 122 - concerning the father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning...
Página 106 - Think not silence the wisdom of fools ; but, if rightly timed, the honour of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity ; and speak not out of the abundance, but the well-weighed thoughts of their hearts. Such silence may be eloquence, and speak thy worth above the power of words.
Página 143 - The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones ; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.