Religio MediciJ. Vincent, 1831 - 150 pages |
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... devotion at all : I am , I confess , naturally inclined to that which misguided zeal terms superstition . My common conversation I do acknowledge austere , my behaviour full of rigour , sometimes not without morosity ; yet at my devotion ...
... devotion at all : I am , I confess , naturally inclined to that which misguided zeal terms superstition . My common conversation I do acknowledge austere , my behaviour full of rigour , sometimes not without morosity ; yet at my devotion ...
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... devotion . I could never hear the Ave Mary bell without an elevation ; nor think it a sufficient warrant , because ... devotions to her , I offer mine to God , and rectify the errors of their prayers , by rightly ordering mine own . At a ...
... devotion . I could never hear the Ave Mary bell without an elevation ; nor think it a sufficient warrant , because ... devotions to her , I offer mine to God , and rectify the errors of their prayers , by rightly ordering mine own . At a ...
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... devotion , as this whereof I hold my belief , the church of England , to whose faith I am a sworn subject ; and therefore in a double obliga- tion subscribe unto her articles , and endeavour to observe her constitutions : whatsoever is ...
... devotion , as this whereof I hold my belief , the church of England , to whose faith I am a sworn subject ; and therefore in a double obliga- tion subscribe unto her articles , and endeavour to observe her constitutions : whatsoever is ...
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... devotion , is his wisdom , in which I am happy ; and for the contemplation of this only , do not repent me that I was bred in the way of study : the advantage I have of the vulgar , with the con- tent and happiness I conceive therein ...
... devotion , is his wisdom , in which I am happy ; and for the contemplation of this only , do not repent me that I was bred in the way of study : the advantage I have of the vulgar , with the con- tent and happiness I conceive therein ...
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... devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables ; for even in sortilegies and matters of greatest uncertainty , there is a settled and preordered course of effects . It is we that are blind , not fortune because our eye is too dim to ...
... devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables ; for even in sortilegies and matters of greatest uncertainty , there is a settled and preordered course of effects . It is we that are blind , not fortune because our eye is too dim to ...
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Page 26 - The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man: it is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts...
Page 138 - 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; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...
Page 75 - I am not so much afraid of Death, as ashamed thereof. Tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, Wife, and Children, stand afraid and start at us...
Page 32 - ... line, that settled and constant course the wisdom of God hath ordained the actions of his creatures, according to their several kinds. To make a revolution every day is the nature of the sun, because of that necessary course which God hath ordained it, from which it cannot swerve but by a faculty from that voice which first did give it motion.
Page 21 - I remember I am not alone, and therefore forget not to contemplate Him and His attributes who is ever with me, especially those two mighty ones. His wisdom and eternity.
Page 140 - ... and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes upon the hour of their departure do speak and reason above themselves, for then the soul beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Page 62 - I hold that the devil doth really possess some men, the spirit of melancholy others, the spirit of delusion others...
Page 130 - World was made for man, but the twelfth part of man for woman: Man is the whole World, and the Breath of GOD; Woman the Rib and crooked piece of man.
Page 140 - Morpheus ; and that those abstracted and ecstatic souls do walk about in their own corps, as spirits with the bodies they assume, wherein they seem to hear, see, and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them.
Page 84 - 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 of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration.