Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3W. Pickering, 1835 |
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Strana 16
... creature that can comprehend him ; ' t is a privilege of his own nature : " I am that I am " was his own definition unto Moses ; and ' t was a short one to confound mortality , that durst question God , or ask him what he was . Indeed ...
... creature that can comprehend him ; ' t is a privilege of his own nature : " I am that I am " was his own definition unto Moses ; and ' t was a short one to confound mortality , that durst question God , or ask him what he was . Indeed ...
Strana 18
... creatures , and the obvious * Γνῶθι σεαυτὸν . Nosce teipsum . 4 .... knowledge soever . ] The whole of the succeeding passage , as far as the corresponding reference , is omitted in Edts . 1642 , and in MSS . W. & R.-Ed. 5. ... dimmer ...
... creatures , and the obvious * Γνῶθι σεαυτὸν . Nosce teipsum . 4 .... knowledge soever . ] The whole of the succeeding passage , as far as the corresponding reference , is omitted in Edts . 1642 , and in MSS . W. & R.-Ed. 5. ... dimmer ...
Strana 19
... creatures , return the duty of a devout and learned admiration.5 Therefore , Search while thou wilt ; and let thy reason go , To ransom truth , e'en to th ' abyss below ; Rally the scattered causes ; and that line Which nature twists be ...
... creatures , return the duty of a devout and learned admiration.5 Therefore , Search while thou wilt ; and let thy reason go , To ransom truth , e'en to th ' abyss below ; Rally the scattered causes ; and that line Which nature twists be ...
Strana 20
... creatures thereof was but his art ; but their sundry and divided operations , with their predestinated ends , are from the treasury of his wisdom . In the causes , nature , and affections , of the eclipses of the sun and moon , there is ...
... creatures thereof was but his art ; but their sundry and divided operations , with their predestinated ends , are from the treasury of his wisdom . In the causes , nature , and affections , of the eclipses of the sun and moon , there is ...
Strana 22
... creatures , according to their several kinds . To make a revo- lution every day is the nature of the sun , because of that necessary course which God hath ordained it , from which , by a faculty from that voice which first did give it ...
... creatures , according to their several kinds . To make a revo- lution every day is the nature of the sun , because of that necessary course which God hath ordained it , from which , by a faculty from that voice which first did give it ...
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Strana 206 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Strana 509 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Strana 277 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Strana 112 - 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.
Strana 111 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Strana 79 - It is unquestionably true in great as well as in little things, that ' if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not;
Strana 91 - I make not, therefore, my head a grave, but a treasure of knowledge ; I intend no monopoly but a community in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves. I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. I instruct no man as an exercise of my knowledge, or with an intent rather to nourish and keep it alive in mine own head...
Strana 110 - The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh that circumscribes me limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end cannot persuade me I have any.
Strana 9 - ... tis therefore far better to enjoy her with peace than to hazard her on a battle.
Strana 113 - The night is come, like to the day, Depart not Thou, great God, away. Let not my sins, black as the night, Eclipse the lustre of Thy light : Keep still in my Horizon ; for to me The Sun makes not the day, but Thee.