Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other PapersLittle, Brown & Company, 1862 - 440 páginas |
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... proper champion for truth , nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity : many from the ignorance of these maxims , and an inconsiderate zeal for truth , have too rashly charged the troops of error , and remain as trophies ...
... proper champion for truth , nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity : many from the ignorance of these maxims , and an inconsiderate zeal for truth , have too rashly charged the troops of error , and remain as trophies ...
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... proper poles or motion from the epicycle of my own brain ; by these means I leave no gap for heresy , schisms , or errors , of which at present I whereof hope I shall not injure truth to say I have no cian con- taint or tincture . I ...
... proper poles or motion from the epicycle of my own brain ; by these means I leave no gap for heresy , schisms , or errors , of which at present I whereof hope I shall not injure truth to say I have no cian con- taint or tincture . I ...
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... proper form and figure , made his motion on his belly before the curse . I find the trial of the pucellage and virginity of women , which God ordained the Jews , is very fallible . Experience and history inform me , that not only many ...
... proper form and figure , made his motion on his belly before the curse . I find the trial of the pucellage and virginity of women , which God ordained the Jews , is very fallible . Experience and history inform me , that not only many ...
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... as God ; others without matter , as an- proper end gels ; some without form , as the first matter : but every essence created or uncreated hath its Nature do- eth nothing in vain . final cause , RELIGIO MEDICI . 29 29.
... as God ; others without matter , as an- proper end gels ; some without form , as the first matter : but every essence created or uncreated hath its Nature do- eth nothing in vain . final cause , RELIGIO MEDICI . 29 29.
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... proper disposition of organs , but a crasis and temper correspondent to its operations ; yet is not this mass of flesh and visible structure the instrument and proper corps of the soul , but rather of sense , and that the hand of reason ...
... proper disposition of organs , but a crasis and temper correspondent to its operations ; yet is not this mass of flesh and visible structure the instrument and proper corps of the soul , but rather of sense , and that the hand of reason ...
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Página 32 - 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 139 - I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavernmusick 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 345 - 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: time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself.
Página 344 - 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 340 - ... 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 146 - 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 343 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Página 339 - 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 38 - The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Página 345 - 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...