Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other PapersLittle, Brown & Company, 1862 - 440 páginas |
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... virtues . The Rev. John Whitefoot , who lived so many years the constant friend and neighbour of Sir Thomas , was requested to draw up some " minutes " after the death of his old compan- ion . He complied in these fitting and worthy- to ...
... virtues . The Rev. John Whitefoot , who lived so many years the constant friend and neighbour of Sir Thomas , was requested to draw up some " minutes " after the death of his old compan- ion . He complied in these fitting and worthy- to ...
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... virtue without a reel or stagger to the circumference . † IV . As there were many reformers , so like- of Refor- wise there were many reformations ; every coun- * A church bell that tolls every day at six and twelve of the clock ; at ...
... virtue without a reel or stagger to the circumference . † IV . As there were many reformers , so like- of Refor- wise there were many reformations ; every coun- * A church bell that tolls every day at six and twelve of the clock ; at ...
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... virtue in us : for obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good . And herein I must accuse those of my and want own religion , for there is not any of such fugitive faith , such an unstable belief , as Christian ; none that do so ...
... virtue in us : for obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good . And herein I must accuse those of my and want own religion , for there is not any of such fugitive faith , such an unstable belief , as Christian ; none that do so ...
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... virtue of the sun ; a fire quite contrary to the fire of hell : this is that gentle heat that brood- ed on the waters , and in six days hatched the world ; this is that irradiation that dispels the mists of hell , the clouds of horror ...
... virtue of the sun ; a fire quite contrary to the fire of hell : this is that gentle heat that brood- ed on the waters , and in six days hatched the world ; this is that irradiation that dispels the mists of hell , the clouds of horror ...
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... virtue is her own reward , is but a cold principle , and not able to maintain our variable resolutions in a constant and settled way of goodness . I have practised that honest artifice of Seneca , and in my retired and solitary ...
... virtue is her own reward , is but a cold principle , and not able to maintain our variable resolutions in a constant and settled way of goodness . I have practised that honest artifice of Seneca , and in my retired and solitary ...
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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...