Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other PapersTicknor and Fields, 1862 - 432 páginas |
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... expressions last on his lips . His burial - place is in the Church of St. Peter , Mancroft , in Norwich , where a mural monument on the south pillar of the altar records his learning and his virtues . The Rev. John Whitefoot , who lived ...
... expressions last on his lips . His burial - place is in the Church of St. Peter , Mancroft , in Norwich , where a mural monument on the south pillar of the altar records his learning and his virtues . The Rev. John Whitefoot , who lived ...
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... , and shall take notice of sundry particularities and personal expressions therein , will easily discern the inten- tion was not publick : and being a private exer- cise directed to myself , what is delivered therein was 4 TO THE READER .
... , and shall take notice of sundry particularities and personal expressions therein , will easily discern the inten- tion was not publick : and being a private exer- cise directed to myself , what is delivered therein was 4 TO THE READER .
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... expressions therein merely tropical , and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense , and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason . Lastly , all that ...
... expressions therein merely tropical , and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense , and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason . Lastly , all that ...
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... 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 be inhabited by ...
... 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 be inhabited by ...
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... expressions he hath left in his creatures , and the obvious effects of No danger nature : there is no danger to profound these mysteries , no sanctum sanctorum in philosophy . the hand of The world was made to be inhabited by beasts ...
... expressions he hath left in his creatures , and the obvious effects of No danger nature : there is no danger to profound these mysteries , no sanctum sanctorum in philosophy . the hand of The world was made to be inhabited by beasts ...
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Página 26 - Thus there are two Books from whence I collect my Divinity ; besides that written one of GOD, another of His servant Nature, that universal and publick manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the Eyes of all : those that never saw Him in the one, have discovered Him in the other.
Página 91 - 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 179 - 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 271 - 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 272 - Achilles's horses in Homer, under naked nominations, without deserts and noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences?
Página 98 - 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...
Página 276 - 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. ' Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Página 71 - I am delineated and naturally framed to such a piece of virtue; for I am of a constitution so general, that it consorts and sympathizeth with all things.
Página 267 - Now since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and specious buildings above it ; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Página 45 - And, though I think no man can live well once, but he that could live twice, yet, for my own part, I would not live over my hours past, or begin again the thread of my days; not upon Cicero's ground, because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.