Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian MoralsWilliam Pickering, 1845 - 388 pages |
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Page vi
... small octavo , one having 190 pp . the other 159 pp . They have no printed title page , but an engraved frontispiece , by Marshall , representing a figure falling from a rock into the sea , but caught by a hand issuing * There are at ...
... small octavo , one having 190 pp . the other 159 pp . They have no printed title page , but an engraved frontispiece , by Marshall , representing a figure falling from a rock into the sea , but caught by a hand issuing * There are at ...
Page viii
... small volume entitled , Obfervations upon Religio Medici , occafionally written by Sir Kenelome * Digby , Knight . Browne fulfilled his promise to Digby , by publishing in 1643 , “ A true and full coppy of that which was most ...
... small volume entitled , Obfervations upon Religio Medici , occafionally written by Sir Kenelome * Digby , Knight . Browne fulfilled his promise to Digby , by publishing in 1643 , “ A true and full coppy of that which was most ...
Page ix
... small 8vo . with an en- graved title , copied from that of the furreptitious editions . This work differs very materially from the fpurious edition , and from all the MSS . and must no longer be regarded as written merely " for his own ...
... small 8vo . with an en- graved title , copied from that of the furreptitious editions . This work differs very materially from the fpurious edition , and from all the MSS . and must no longer be regarded as written merely " for his own ...
Page 68
... are , I confess , some new additions , yet small to those which accrue to our adversaries , and * The population of our globe has been divided thus : those only drawn from the revolt of Pa- gans , 68 Religio Medici .
... are , I confess , some new additions , yet small to those which accrue to our adversaries , and * The population of our globe has been divided thus : those only drawn from the revolt of Pa- gans , 68 Religio Medici .
Page 108
... small angle , diverge to greater and greater distances the further they are produced : and furely in like manner a foul living on into eternity may be infinitely changed for the better or the worse by very flight influences exerted on ...
... small angle , diverge to greater and greater distances the further they are produced : and furely in like manner a foul living on into eternity may be infinitely changed for the better or the worse by very flight influences exerted on ...
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againſt alfo alſo Andrew Crooke beaſt becauſe behold beſt cauſe charity Chrift Chriſtian conceive confefs courſe creatures death defire deſtroy devil diftinct diſcover diſeaſes divinity doth dreams eafily earth effence Engliſh eſcape exiſtence eyes faid faith fame fatires feem felves fenfe fhall fince fingle firſt fleep fleſh fome fometimes foul fuch fuffer furely goodneſs happineſs hath heaven hell himſelf hiſtory honour itſelf laſt leſs live meaſure mercy moral moſt muſt myſelf nature notwithſtanding obfcure obferved ourſelves Ovid paffion paſs paſt perfons periſh philofophy piece pleaſure preſent raiſe reaſon reft Religio Medici religion ſay ſcarce Scripture ſee ſeem ſeen ſenſe ſhall ſhould ſmall ſome ſpeak ſpirit ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtory ſtrange ſtudy ſuch thee themſelves thereof theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thyſelf tion ture underſtanding univerfal unto uſe vices virtue wherein whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh
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Page 379 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 183 - 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.
Page 150 - I feel not in myself those common antipathies that I can discover in others: those national repugnances do not touch me, nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch...
Page 117 - He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period...
Page 364 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night,...
Page 320 - Unthinking heads, who have not learned to be alone, are in a prison to themselves, if they be not also with others : whereas, on the contrary, they whose thoughts are in a fair, and hurry within, are sometimes fain to retire into company, to be out of the crowd of themselves.
Page 196 - Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
Page 88 - ... that middle form that links those two together, and makes good the method of God and nature that jumps not from extremes, but unites the incompatible distances by some middle and participating natures.
Page 363 - It is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person, and it is visible to us who are alive. Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a three days...
Page 169 - The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind; Earth smiles around, with boundless bounty blest, And Heaven beholds its image in his breast.