The Religio Medici & Other Writings of Sir Thomas BrowneJ. M. Dent, 1931 - 296 pages |
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... happy as any : Ruat catum , 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 ...
... happy as any : Ruat catum , 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 ...
Page 89
... happy , the holy Angels are happy , in whose detect the Devils are unhappy , that dare I call happiness : whatsoever conduceth unto this , may with an easy Metaphor deserve that name ; whatsoever else the World terms Happiness , is to ...
... happy , the holy Angels are happy , in whose detect the Devils are unhappy , that dare I call happiness : whatsoever conduceth unto this , may with an easy Metaphor deserve that name ; whatsoever else the World terms Happiness , is to ...
Page 272
... happy before Death , the happiness of this Life goes for nothing before it be over , and while we think ourselves happy we do but usurp that Name . Cer- tainly true Beatitude groweth not on Earth , nor hath this World in it the ...
... happy before Death , the happiness of this Life goes for nothing before it be over , and while we think ourselves happy we do but usurp that Name . Cer- tainly true Beatitude groweth not on Earth , nor hath this World in it the ...
Contents
RELIGIO MEDICI | 3 |
LETTER TO A FRIEND UPON OCCASION OF THE DEATH | 149 |
THE GARDEN OF CYRUS OR THE QUINCUNCIALL LOZENGE | 167 |
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