Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a FriendS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882 - 196 pages |
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... noble than a 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 a 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 prophesies and mystical types , could raise a belief , and expect apparent impossibilities . * Sect . 10 .- ' Tis true , there is an edge in all firm belief , and with an ...
... noble faith , who lived before his coming , who , upon obscure prophesies and mystical types , could raise a belief , and expect apparent impossibilities . * Sect . 10 .- ' Tis true , there is an edge in all firm belief , and with an ...
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... noble way , fear the face of death less than myself ; yet , from the moral duty I owe to the com- mandment of God , and the natural respect that I tender unto the conservation of my essence and being , I would not perish upon a ceremony ...
... noble way , fear the face of death less than myself ; yet , from the moral duty I owe to the com- mandment of God , and the natural respect that I tender unto the conservation of my essence and being , I would not perish upon a ceremony ...
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... noble essences in heaven bear a friendly regard unto their fellow - nature on earth ; and therefore believe that those many prodigies and ominous prognosticks , which forerun the ruins of states , princes , and private persons , are the ...
... noble essences in heaven bear a friendly regard unto their fellow - nature on earth ; and therefore believe that those many prodigies and ominous prognosticks , which forerun the ruins of states , princes , and private persons , are the ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Page 157 - 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 equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon.
Page 153 - In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
Page 157 - ... 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.
Page 155 - The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designs. To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our beliefs. We whose generations are ordained in this setting part of time...
Page 11 - 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.
Page 98 - 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.
Page 154 - 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.
Page 98 - Ruat calum, fiat voluntas tua, salveth all ; so that, whatsoever happens, it is but what our daily prayers desire. In brief, I am content ; and what should providence add more ? Surely this is it we call happiness, and this do I enjoy ; with this I am happy in a dream, and as content to enjoy a happiness in a fancy, as others in a more apparent truth and reality.
Page 99 - And surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere dreams, to those of the next, as the phantasms of the night, to the conceit of the day.
Page 157 - In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...