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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... Scripture is filent , the Church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment : where there is a joint filence of both , I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Ge- neva , but the dictates of my own reason . * It is ...
... Scripture is filent , the Church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment : where there is a joint filence of both , I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Ge- neva , but the dictates of my own reason . * It is ...
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... Scripture and Theology of the heathens : the natural motion of the fun made them more admire him , than its fupernatural ftation did the children Joh . x . 12 , of Ifrael ; the ordinary effect of nature wrought more admiration in them ...
... Scripture and Theology of the heathens : the natural motion of the fun made them more admire him , than its fupernatural ftation did the children Joh . x . 12 , of Ifrael ; the ordinary effect of nature wrought more admiration in them ...
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... Scripture and philofo- phy , could not expel the poison of his error . There are a fet of heads , that can credit the relations of mariners , yet question the teftimonies of St. Paul ; and peremptorily maintain the traditions of Ælian ...
... Scripture and philofo- phy , could not expel the poison of his error . There are a fet of heads , that can credit the relations of mariners , yet question the teftimonies of St. Paul ; and peremptorily maintain the traditions of Ælian ...
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... Scripture to have pro- ceeded from him who is the Author of Nature , may well expect to find the fame fort of difficulties in it , as are found in the Conftitution of Nature . " gen , quoted by Butler in Introduct . to Anal . Ori ...
... Scripture to have pro- ceeded from him who is the Author of Nature , may well expect to find the fame fort of difficulties in it , as are found in the Conftitution of Nature . " gen , quoted by Butler in Introduct . to Anal . Ori ...
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... Scripture , and ge- nerally believed as Scripture , whereunto notwithstanding , I would never betray the liberty of my reason . ' Tis a pos- tulate to me , that Methufalem was the Gen. v . 5 . longeft lived of all the children of Adam ...
... Scripture , and ge- nerally believed as Scripture , whereunto notwithstanding , I would never betray the liberty of my reason . ' Tis a pos- tulate to me , that Methufalem was the Gen. v . 5 . longeft lived of all the children of Adam ...
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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.