Religio MediciJ. Vincent, 1831 - 150 páginas |
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... truly had not the duty I owe unto the importunity of friends , and the allegiance I must ever acknowledge unto truth , prevailed with me ; the inactivity of my disposition might have made these sufferings con- tinual , and time , that ...
... truly had not the duty I owe unto the importunity of friends , and the allegiance I must ever acknowledge unto truth , prevailed with me ; the inactivity of my disposition might have made these sufferings con- tinual , and time , that ...
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... truly is a description well befitting them , though not intended to them in this place : howsoever , I see not any ground from hence to conclude the author to be any whit inclining to the bulk of popery , ( but have great reason from ...
... truly is a description well befitting them , though not intended to them in this place : howsoever , I see not any ground from hence to conclude the author to be any whit inclining to the bulk of popery , ( but have great reason from ...
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... truly , but in equivocal shapes , and as they counterfeit some real substance in that in- visible fabric . XIII . That other attribute wherewith I recreate my devotion , is his wisdom , in which I am happy ; and for the contemplation of ...
... truly , but in equivocal shapes , and as they counterfeit some real substance in that in- visible fabric . XIII . That other attribute wherewith I recreate my devotion , is his wisdom , in which I am happy ; and for the contemplation of ...
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... time to be in autumn : but truly , in strict speaking , it was not created in any one , but all of the seasons , as the author saith 1. vi . c . 2 . XXII . These are niceties that become not those that RELIGIO MEDICI . 45.
... time to be in autumn : but truly , in strict speaking , it was not created in any one , but all of the seasons , as the author saith 1. vi . c . 2 . XXII . These are niceties that become not those that RELIGIO MEDICI . 45.
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... truly it is beyond wonder , how that contemptible and degenerate issue of Jacob , once so devoted to ethnic superstition , and so easily seduced to the idolatry of their neighbours , should now in such an obstinate and peremptory belief ...
... truly it is beyond wonder , how that contemptible and degenerate issue of Jacob , once so devoted to ethnic superstition , and so easily seduced to the idolatry of their neighbours , should now in such an obstinate and peremptory belief ...
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Página 26 - The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man: it is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts...
Página 138 - 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 75 - I am not so much afraid of Death, as ashamed thereof. Tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, Wife, and Children, stand afraid and start at us...
Página 32 - ... line, that settled and constant course the wisdom of God hath ordained the actions of his creatures, according to their several kinds. To make a revolution every day is the nature of the sun, because of that necessary course which God hath ordained it, from which it cannot swerve but by a faculty from that voice which first did give it motion.
Página 21 - I remember I am not alone, and therefore forget not to contemplate Him and His attributes who is ever with me, especially those two mighty ones. His wisdom and eternity.
Página 140 - ... and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes upon the hour of their departure do speak and reason above themselves, for then the soul beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Página 62 - I hold that the devil doth really possess some men, the spirit of melancholy others, the spirit of delusion others...
Página 130 - World was made for man, but the twelfth part of man for woman: Man is the whole World, and the Breath of GOD; Woman the Rib and crooked piece of man.
Página 140 - Morpheus ; and that those abstracted and ecstatic souls do walk about in their own corps, as spirits with the bodies they assume, wherein they seem to hear, see, and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them.
Página 84 - The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. 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.