Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend |
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Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith : the deepest mysteries ours contains have not only been illustrated , but maintained , by syllogism and the rule of reason . love to lose myself in a mystery ...
Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith : the deepest mysteries ours contains have not only been illustrated , but maintained , by syllogism and the rule of reason . love to lose myself in a mystery ...
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able according actions affection ancient ashes Author become behold believe better body bones buried burnt cause charity Christian church cloth common conceive confess contained creatures dead death desire devil discover disease divinity doth dream earth Edition English expect express eyes face faith fall fear fire friends give grave hand happy hath heads heaven hell hold honour hope Illustrations Italy judgment leave live look mind mortality nature needs never noble obscure observed opinion original ourselves passed persons philosophy piece practice present published reason religion rest Roman Sect seems sense sleep soul spirits stand story surely tell thereof things thought tion true truly truth unto urns vice virtue wherein whole
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Página 153 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 151 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Página 151 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Página 93 - 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.
Página 4 - I could never hear the AveMary bell* without an elevation, or think it a sufficient warrant, because they erred in one circumstance, for me to err in all, that is, in silence and dumb contempt ; whilst therefore they directed their devotions to her, I offered mine to God, and rectified the errors of their prayers, by rightly ordering mine own.
Página 11 - tis good to sit down with a description, periphrasis, or adumbration ; for by acquainting our Reason how unable it is to display the visible and obvious effects of nature, it becomes more humble and submissive unto the subtleties of Faith ; and thus I teach my haggard and unreclaimed reason to stoop unto the lure of Faith.
Página 92 - The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any.
Página 5 - The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology ; or, the Economy of the Sea and its Adaptations, its Salts, its Waters, its Climates, its Inhabitants, and whatever there may be of general interest in its Commercial Uses or Industrial Pursuits. By Commander MF Maury, LL.D.
Página 148 - What song the syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution.
Página 194 - Finds comfort in himself and in his cause; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause : This is the happy Warrior; this is He That every Man in arms should wish to be.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend The Bayard series |
| Autor | Sir Thomas Browne |
| Editor | John William Willis Bund |
| Colaborador | John William Willis Bund |
| Editor | Sampson Low, Sons, and Marston, 1869 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 31 Jul. 2006 |
| Largo | 196 páginas |
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