Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and Other EssaysW. Scott, 1886 - 262 páginas |
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... bones discovered by him at Great Walsingham , " under the drums and tramplings of three conquests . " This is the proper attitude of one not called by station to control the body politic , but destined by genius to the humbler function ...
... bones discovered by him at Great Walsingham , " under the drums and tramplings of three conquests . " This is the proper attitude of one not called by station to control the body politic , but destined by genius to the humbler function ...
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... bones discovered by him at Great Walsingham , " under the drums and tramplings of three conquests . " This is the proper attitude of one not called by station to control the body politic , but destined by genius to the humbler function ...
... bones discovered by him at Great Walsingham , " under the drums and tramplings of three conquests . " This is the proper attitude of one not called by station to control the body politic , but destined by genius to the humbler function ...
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... bones of S. Peter or S. Mark are too close , forsooth , in time to satisfy him . They win but vulgar credence , having naught to exercise a select divinatory instinct . Mere age cannot perplex his fancy , which loves to explore the ...
... bones of S. Peter or S. Mark are too close , forsooth , in time to satisfy him . They win but vulgar credence , having naught to exercise a select divinatory instinct . Mere age cannot perplex his fancy , which loves to explore the ...
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... bones , and be but pyramidally extant , is a fallacy in duration . " When he casts his eyes back- ward over years gone by , he sighs because " it is too late to be ambitious . The great mutations of the world are acted , or time may be ...
... bones , and be but pyramidally extant , is a fallacy in duration . " When he casts his eyes back- ward over years gone by , he sighs because " it is too late to be ambitious . The great mutations of the world are acted , or time may be ...
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... bones of S. Peter or S. Mark are too close , forsooth , in time to satisfy him . They win but vulgar credence , having naught to exercise a select divinatory instinct . Mere age cannot perplex his fancy , which loves to explore the ...
... bones of S. Peter or S. Mark are too close , forsooth , in time to satisfy him . They win but vulgar credence , having naught to exercise a select divinatory instinct . Mere age cannot perplex his fancy , which loves to explore the ...
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Página 62 - 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 59 - 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 59 - To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?
Página 60 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Página 58 - 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 51 - 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 chuse for my devotions...
Página 53 - The night is come, like to the day, Depart not Thou, great God, away. Let not my sins, black as the night, Eclipse the lustre of Thy light : Keep still in my Horizon ; for to me The Sun makes not the day, but Thee.
Página 51 - ... 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 50 - The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any.
Página 62 - A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapalus, but the wisedom of funeral Laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing...