Religio medici. Its sequel, Christian morals. With resemblant passages from Cowper's TaskLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 - 275 páginas |
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... noble creature who wrote ' not for an age , but for all time , ' is quite as perspicuous as some whom we call ( by the happiest phrase in the world ) writers of THE DAY . We have the testimony of Sir Thomas's daughter that ' CHRISTIAN ...
... noble creature who wrote ' not for an age , but for all time , ' is quite as perspicuous as some whom we call ( by the happiest phrase in the world ) writers of THE DAY . We have the testimony of Sir Thomas's daughter that ' CHRISTIAN ...
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... noble than an history . These` opinions I never maintained with pertinacity , or endeavoured to inveigle any man's belief unto mine , nor so much as ever revealed or disputed them with my dearest friends ; by which means I neither ...
... noble than an history . These` opinions I never maintained with pertinacity , or endeavoured to inveigle any man's belief unto mine , nor so much as ever revealed or disputed them with my dearest friends ; by which means I neither ...
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... noble faith , who lived before his coming , who upon obscure prophecies and mystical types could raise a belief , and expect apparent impos- sibilities . X. ' Tis true there is an edge in all firm belief , and with an easy metaphor we ...
... noble faith , who lived before his coming , who upon obscure prophecies and mystical types could raise a belief , and expect apparent impos- sibilities . X. ' Tis true there is an edge in all firm belief , and with an easy metaphor we ...
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... noble way fear the face of death less than myself ; yet from the moral duty I owe to the commandment of God , and the natural respects that I tender unto the conservation of my essence and being , I would not perish upon a cere- mony ...
... noble way fear the face of death less than myself ; yet from the moral duty I owe to the commandment of God , and the natural respects that I tender unto the conservation of my essence and being , I would not perish upon a cere- mony ...
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... noble essences in heaven bear a friendly regard unto their fellow natures on earth ; and therefore believe that those many prodigies and ominous prognosticks which forerun the ruins of states , princes , and pri- vate persons , are the ...
... noble essences in heaven bear a friendly regard unto their fellow natures on earth ; and therefore believe that those many prodigies and ominous prognosticks which forerun the ruins of states , princes , and pri- vate persons , are the ...
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Página 257 - He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return, a rich repast for me. He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes...
Página 251 - And for a time ensure, to his loved land The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim...
Página 138 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Página 259 - ... of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But...
Página 58 - I am sure there is a common spirit that plays within us, yet makes no part of us: and that is the Spirit of God, the fire and scintillation of that noble and mighty essence which is the life and radical heat of spirits and those essences that know not the virtue of the sun; a fire quite contrary to the fire of hell: this is that gentle heat that brooded on the waters, and in six days hatched the world...
Página 9 - City, and yet be forced to surrender ; 'tis therefore far better to enjoy her with peace, than to hazzard her on a battle.
Página 68 - Thus we are men, and we know not how ; there is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though it is strange that it hath no history what it was before us, nor cannot tell how it entered in us.
Página 245 - A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, .. . " And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.
Página 248 - I call the effects of Nature the works of GOD, Whose hand and instrument she only is; and therefore to ascribe His actions unto her, is to devolve the honour of the principal agent upon the instrument...
Página 141 - Thou whose nature cannot sleep, On my temples sentry keep ! Guard me 'gainst those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open while mine close ; Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest.