Religio medici: together with a letter to a friend on the death of his intimate friend and christian moralsWilliam Pickering, 1845 - 388 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 16
Página xvi
... learned judgments fhall authorize them : under favour of which confiderations , I have made its secrecy publick , and committed the truth thereof to every ingenuous Reader . THOMAS BROWNE . Religio Medici . OR my religion , Our Phy ...
... learned judgments fhall authorize them : under favour of which confiderations , I have made its secrecy publick , and committed the truth thereof to every ingenuous Reader . THOMAS BROWNE . Religio Medici . OR my religion , Our Phy ...
Página 22
... learned of Tertullian , Certum eft quia impoffibile eft . I defire to exercise my faith in the difficulteft point ; for to credit ordinary and visible objects , is not faith , but perfuafion . * Some believe the better for seeing ...
... learned of Tertullian , Certum eft quia impoffibile eft . I defire to exercise my faith in the difficulteft point ; for to credit ordinary and visible objects , is not faith , but perfuafion . * Some believe the better for seeing ...
Página 34
... learned admiration . There- fore , Search while thou wilt , and let thy reafon go To ransom truth , even to th ' abyss below ; Rally the scattered causes ; and that line Which nature twists , be able to untwine . It is thy Maker's will ...
... learned admiration . There- fore , Search while thou wilt , and let thy reafon go To ransom truth , even to th ' abyss below ; Rally the scattered causes ; and that line Which nature twists , be able to untwine . It is thy Maker's will ...
Página 78
... learned heads fhould fo far forget their metaphy- fics , and destroy the ladder and scale of creatures , as to question the existence of fpirits . For my part , I have ever be- lieved , and do now know , that there are witches : they ...
... learned heads fhould fo far forget their metaphy- fics , and destroy the ladder and scale of creatures , as to question the existence of fpirits . For my part , I have ever be- lieved , and do now know , that there are witches : they ...
Página 80
... learned immedi- ately from the devil , but at second hand from his scholars , who having once the fe- cret betrayed , are able , and do empirically practise without his advice , they both pro- * See Taylor's Holy Living , c . 2 , S. 3 ...
... learned immedi- ately from the devil , but at second hand from his scholars , who having once the fe- cret betrayed , are able , and do empirically practise without his advice , they both pro- * See Taylor's Holy Living , c . 2 , S. 3 ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
againſt alfo alſo Andrew Crooke beaſt becauſe befides behold beſt cauſe charity Chrift Chriftian conceive confefs courſe creatures death defire deſtroy devil diſcover diſeaſes divinity doth dreams eafily earth effence Engliſh eſcape exiſtence eyes faid faith fame fatires feem felf felves fenfe fhall fhould fince fingle firſt fleep fleſh fome fometimes foul fpirits fuch fuffer furely goodneſs happineſs hath heaven hell himſelf honeft honour itſelf laſt leſs live meaſure mercy moral moſt muſt myſelf myſteries nature notwithſtanding obfcure obferve ourſelves Ovid paffion paſs paſt perfons periſh philofophy pleaſure preſent raiſed reaſon reft Religio Medici religion ſay ſcarce Scripture ſee ſeem ſenſe ſhall ſmall ſome ſpeak ſpirit ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtrange thee themſelves thereof theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thyſelf tion ture underſtanding unto uſe vices virtue vols wherein whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh
Pasajes populares
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.