Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other PapersRoberts, 1878 - 440 pages |
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... Epicurus , that denied the providence of God , was no atheism , but a magnificent and high - strained conceit of his majesty , which he deemed too sublime to mind the trivial actions of those inferior creatures . That fatal necessi- ty ...
... Epicurus , that denied the providence of God , was no atheism , but a magnificent and high - strained conceit of his majesty , which he deemed too sublime to mind the trivial actions of those inferior creatures . That fatal necessi- ty ...
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... Epicurus is most considerable , whom men make honest without an Elysium , who contemned life with- out encouragement of immortality , and , making nothing after death , yet made nothing of the king of terrors . Were the happiness of the ...
... Epicurus is most considerable , whom men make honest without an Elysium , who contemned life with- out encouragement of immortality , and , making nothing after death , yet made nothing of the king of terrors . Were the happiness of the ...
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... Epicurus lies deep in Dante's hell , wherein we meet with tombs enclosing souls which denied their immortalities . But whether the virtuous heathen , who lived better than he spake , or , erring in the principles of himself , yet lived ...
... Epicurus lies deep in Dante's hell , wherein we meet with tombs enclosing souls which denied their immortalities . But whether the virtuous heathen , who lived better than he spake , or , erring in the principles of himself , yet lived ...
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Page 14 - Thus there are two Books from whence I collect my Divinity ; besides that written one of GOD, another of His servant Nature, that universal and publick manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the Eyes of all : those that never saw Him in the one, have discovered Him in the other.
Page 121 - I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony, which intellectually...
Page 297 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.
Page 297 - Achilles's horses in Homer, under naked nominations, without deserts and noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences?
Page 128 - 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...
Page 296 - ... unto them ; whereas they weariedly left a languishing corpse and with faint desires of re-union. If they fell by long and aged decay, yet wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and make but one blot with infants.
Page 295 - Now since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and specious buildings above it; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Page 297 - Pyramids, arches, obelisks were but the irregularities of vainglory and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity unto which all others must diminish their diameters and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.
Page 297 - Whatever hath no beginning, may be confident of no end; which is the peculiar of that necessary essence that cannot destroy itself, and the highest strain of omnipotency to be so powerfully constituted, as not to suffer even from the power of itself.
Page 297 - 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...