Religio Medici: To which is Added, Hydriotaphia, Or, Urn-burial : a Discourse on Sepulchral Urns : and Also, Christian Morals |
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Page 141 - Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate? 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
Page viii - Came, vested all in white, pure as her mind : Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night !
Page 23 - 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. 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 public manuscript^*
Page 23 - 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 station did the children of Israel; the ordinary effects of nature wrought more admiration in them
Page 102 - 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
Page 141 - and being necessitated to eye the remaining particle of futurity, are naturally constituted unto thoughts of the next world, and cannot excusably decline the consideration of that duration, which maketh pyramids pillars of snow, and all that is past a moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle(
Page 56 - 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, and Dutch :(.***.) but ,.,-- where I find their actions in balance with my ,/... countrymen's, I honour, love, and embrace them in
Page 103 - We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us and destroys those spirits that are the house of life. It is indeed a part of life that best expresseth death; for every man truly lives, so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties of himself: Themistocles,(
Page 145 - Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory 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
Page 14 - altitudo ! It is my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved enigmas and riddles of the Trinity, with incarnation and resurrection. I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason, with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian, Cerium est quia impossible est."^