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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... truth , pre- vailed with me ; the inactivity of my difpofition might have made these sufferings continual , and time , that brings other things to light , should have satisfied me in the remedy of its oblivion . But because things ...
... truth , pre- vailed with me ; the inactivity of my difpofition might have made these sufferings continual , and time , that brings other things to light , should have satisfied me in the remedy of its oblivion . But because things ...
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... : 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- fician xvi To the Reader .
... : 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- fician xvi To the Reader .
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... truth , and those unstable judgments that cannot confist in the narrow point and centre of virtue without a reel or stagger to the circumference . * IV . As there were many re- formers , fo likewife there were many re- formations ...
... truth , and those unstable judgments that cannot confist in the narrow point and centre of virtue without a reel or stagger to the circumference . * IV . As there were many re- formers , fo likewife there were many re- formations ...
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... truth , nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity : many from the ignorance of these maxims , and an inconfiderate zeal for truth , have too rafhly charged the troops of error , and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth ...
... truth , nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity : many from the ignorance of these maxims , and an inconfiderate zeal for truth , have too rafhly charged the troops of error , and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth ...
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... truth feems double - faced , there is no man more para- doxical than myfelf : but in divinity I Fantafies love to keep the road ; and , though not in an implicit , yet an humble faith , follow the great wheel of the Church , by which I ...
... truth feems double - faced , there is no man more para- doxical than myfelf : but in divinity I Fantafies love to keep the road ; and , though not in an implicit , yet an humble faith , follow the great wheel of the Church , by which I ...
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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.