Religio medici: together with a letter to a friend on the death of his intimate friend and christian moralsWilliam Pickering, 1845 - 388 páginas |
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... Surely it is but the merits of our unworthy natures , if we fleep in darkness until the last alarum . A serious reflex upon my own unworthi- nefs did make me backward from chal- lenging this prerogative of my foul : fo I might enjoy my ...
... Surely it is but the merits of our unworthy natures , if we fleep in darkness until the last alarum . A serious reflex upon my own unworthi- nefs did make me backward from chal- lenging this prerogative of my foul : fo I might enjoy my ...
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... Surely there are in every man's life certain rubs , doublings , and wrenches , which pass a while under the effects of chance , but at the laft , well examined , prove the mere hand of God . It was not dumb chance that , to discover the ...
... Surely there are in every man's life certain rubs , doublings , and wrenches , which pass a while under the effects of chance , but at the laft , well examined , prove the mere hand of God . It was not dumb chance that , to discover the ...
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... Surely though we place hell under earth , the devil's walk and purlieu is about it : men speak too popularly who place it in those flaming mountains , which to groffer apprehenfions represent hell . The heart of man is the place the ...
... Surely though we place hell under earth , the devil's walk and purlieu is about it : men speak too popularly who place it in those flaming mountains , which to groffer apprehenfions represent hell . The heart of man is the place the ...
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... Surely this is it we call happiness , and this do I enjoy ; with this I am happy in a dream , and as content to enjoy a hap- piness in a fancy , as others in a more ap- parent truth and reality . There is furely of Dreams . : a nearer ...
... Surely this is it we call happiness , and this do I enjoy ; with this I am happy in a dream , and as content to enjoy a hap- piness in a fancy , as others in a more ap- parent truth and reality . There is furely of Dreams . : a nearer ...
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... , which others folici- toufly labour after , and doubtfully think they attain . Surely , fuch confident tem- pers do pass their days in best tranquillity ; who , refting in the opinion of their own abilities 294 Christian Morals .
... , which others folici- toufly labour after , and doubtfully think they attain . Surely , fuch confident tem- pers do pass their days in best tranquillity ; who , refting in the opinion of their own abilities 294 Christian Morals .
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Página 379 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 183 - 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.
Página 150 - I feel not in myself those common antipathies that I can discover in others: those national repugnances do not touch me, nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch...
Página 117 - He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period...
Página 43 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature, they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature : were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a Chaos: nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Página 364 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night,...
Página 196 - Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.