Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other PapersTicknor and Fields, 1862 - 440 pages |
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Page 116 - Nobilitas sola est atque unica, virtus." Juvenal. " Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." Tennyson. ger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God: I draw not
Page 34 - which they swerve not since. That under force Of that controlling ordinance they move, And need not his immediate hand who first Prescribed their course, to regulate it now. The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 32 - besides that written one of God, another of his servant nature, that universal and public manuscript, that lies expansed unto the eyes of all: those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other. This was the Scripture and Theology of the heathens: the natural motion of the sun made them more admire him than its supernatural "And
Page 344 - are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages. To be content that times to come should only know there was such a man, not caring whether they knew more of him, was a frigid ambition in Cardan, J disparaging his horoscopal inclination and judgment of himself.
Page 88 - The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration.
Page 239 - well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and Email; For the dear God who loveth us,
Page 145 - friendly dreams in the night requite me, and make me think I am within his arms. I thank God for my happy dreams, as I do for my good rest, for there is a satisfaction in them unto reasonable desires, and such as can be content with a fit of happiness : and surely it is
Page 32 - nature, which without further travel I can do in the cosmography of myself: we carry with us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us ; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume. Nature
Page 152 - Man is God's image; but a poor man is Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard. God reckons for him, counts the favour His: Write, So much given to God: thou shalt be heard.*' without poverty, take away the object of charity, not only not understanding the common- St
Page 16 - been many Diogenes, and as many Timons, though but few of that name: men are lived over again, the world is now as it was in ages past; there was none then, but there hath been some one since that parallels him, and as it were his revived self.