Religio medici. Its sequel, Christian morals. With resemblant passages from Cowper's TaskLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 - 275 strán (strany) |
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Strana 207 - To those who posted at the shrine of truth Have fallen in her defence. A patriot's blood, Well spent in such a strife, may earn indeed And for a time insure to his loved land, The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain.
Strana 200 - 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 expansed unto the eyes of all. This was the scripture and theology of the heathens
Strana 213 - But oh, thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown: Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor, And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away! Task.
Strana 38 - and highest pieces of divinity. The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some more real substance in that invisible
Strana 203 - Thou fool! will thy discovery of the cause Suspend the effect, or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world, And did he not of old employ his means To drown it 1 What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Formed for his use, and ready at his will
Strana 209 - There lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God . . . The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains and is the life of all that lives. He feeds the
Strana 34 - unimagined, wherein the liberty of an honest reason may play and expatiate with security, and far without the circle of an heresy. IX. As for those wingy mysteries in divinity and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the
Strana 211 - Surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanced To some secure and more than mortal height, That liberates and exempts me from them all; It turns, submitted to my view, turns round With all its generations.
Strana 210 - The world that I regard is myself, it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast my eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Strana 213 - Happy the man who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that chequer life! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.