Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other PapersRoberts, 1878 - 440 páginas |
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... believe the better for seeing Christ's sepulchre ; and when they have seen the Red Sea , doubt not of the miracle ... believe and saw not . ' Tis an easy believed . and necessary belief , to credit what our eye and sense hath examined ...
... believe the better for seeing Christ's sepulchre ; and when they have seen the Red Sea , doubt not of the miracle ... believe and saw not . ' Tis an easy believed . and necessary belief , to credit what our eye and sense hath examined ...
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... believe there was already a tree whose fruit our unhap- py parents tasted ; though in the same chapter , when God forbids it , ' tis positively said the plants of the fields were not yet grown , for God had not caused it to rain upon ...
... believe there was already a tree whose fruit our unhap- py parents tasted ; though in the same chapter , when God forbids it , ' tis positively said the plants of the fields were not yet grown , for God had not caused it to rain upon ...
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... believe the immortality of the soul , because Galen seemed to make a doubt thereof . With another I was familiarly ac- quainted in France , a divine , and a man of singular parts , that on the same point was so plunged and gravelled ...
... believe the immortality of the soul , because Galen seemed to make a doubt thereof . With another I was familiarly ac- quainted in France , a divine , and a man of singular parts , that on the same point was so plunged and gravelled ...
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... believe , yet raise no question who shall arise with that rib at the resurrection : whether Adam was an hermaphrodite , as the Rabbins contend upon the letter of the text , because it is contrary to " He who believes the Scripture to ...
... believe , yet raise no question who shall arise with that rib at the resurrection : whether Adam was an hermaphrodite , as the Rabbins contend upon the letter of the text , because it is contrary to " He who believes the Scripture to ...
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... believe the Holy Scriptures ; yet were it of man , I could not choose but say , it was the singularest and superlative piece that hath been extant since the creation . Were I a pagan I should not refrain the lecture of it ; and cannot ...
... believe the Holy Scriptures ; yet were it of man , I could not choose but say , it was the singularest and superlative piece that hath been extant since the creation . Were I a pagan I should not refrain the lecture of it ; and cannot ...
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Página 14 - 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 121 - 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 297 - 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.
Página 297 - 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 128 - 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 296 - ... unto them ; whereas they weariedly left a languishing corpse and with faint desires of re-union. If they fell by long and aged decay, yet wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and make but one blot with infants.
Página 295 - 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 297 - Pyramids, arches, obelisks were but the irregularities of vainglory and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity unto which all others must diminish their diameters and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.
Página 297 - Whatever hath no beginning, may be confident of no end; which is the peculiar of that necessary essence that cannot destroy itself, and the highest strain of omnipotency to be so powerfully constituted, as not to suffer even from the power of itself.
Página 297 - 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. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have...