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... wise confirm the faith of wiser believers , who know that a good cause needs not to be patroned by a passion , but can sustain itself upon a temperate dispute . VI . I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an ...
... wise confirm the faith of wiser believers , who know that a good cause needs not to be patroned by a passion , but can sustain itself upon a temperate dispute . VI . I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an ...
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... wise be- cause he knows all things , and he knoweth all things because he made them all ; but his greatest knowledge is in comprehending that he made not , that is , himself . And this is also the greatest knowledge in man . For this do ...
... wise be- cause he knows all things , and he knoweth all things because he made them all ; but his greatest knowledge is in comprehending that he made not , that is , himself . And this is also the greatest knowledge in man . For this do ...
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... wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us ? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature , whales , elephants , dromedaries and camels ; these , I confess , are the colossus and majestick pieces of her ...
... wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us ? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature , whales , elephants , dromedaries and camels ; these , I confess , are the colossus and majestick pieces of her ...
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... wise man is out of the reach of fortune ; much less those opprobrious epithets of poets , whore , bawd , and strumpet . ' Tis , I confess , the common fate of men of singular gifts of mind to be destitute of those of fortune ; which ...
... wise man is out of the reach of fortune ; much less those opprobrious epithets of poets , whore , bawd , and strumpet . ' Tis , I confess , the common fate of men of singular gifts of mind to be destitute of those of fortune ; which ...
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... wise supputation all things begin and end in the Almighty . There is a nearer way to heaven than Homer's chain ; an easy logick may conjoin heaven and earth in one argument , and with less than a sorites resolve all things into God ...
... wise supputation all things begin and end in the Almighty . There is a nearer way to heaven than Homer's chain ; an easy logick may conjoin heaven and earth in one argument , and with less than a sorites resolve all things into God ...
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Page 248 - And for a time ensure, to his loved land The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim...
Page 53 - I am sure there is a common spirit that plays within us, yet makes no part of us: and that is the Spirit of God, the fire and scintillation of that noble and mighty essence which is the life and radical heat of spirits and those essences that know not the virtue of the sun; a fire quite contrary to the fire of hell: this is that gentle heat that brooded on the waters, and in six days hatched the world...
Page 4 - City, and yet be forced to surrender ; 'tis therefore far better to enjoy her with peace, than to hazzard her on a battle.
Page 254 - He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return, a rich repast for me. He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes...
Page 63 - Thus we are men, and we know not how : there is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us ; though it is strange that it hath no history, what it was before us, nor cannot tell how it entered in us.
Page 242 - A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, .. . " And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.
Page xxx - I could never hear the AveMary bell* without an elevation, or think it a sufficient warrant, because they erred in one circumstance, for me to err in all, that is, in silence and dumb contempt ; whilst therefore they...
Page xxvii - I find my self obliged by the Principles of Grace, and the Law of mine own Reason, to embrace no other Name but this. Neither doth herein my zeal so far make me forget the general Charity I owe unto Humanity, as rather to hate than pity Turks, Infidels, and (what is worse), Jews; rather contenting my self to enjoy that happy Stile, than maligning those who refuse so glorious a Title.
Page 243 - 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 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 station did the children of Israel; the ordinary...
Page 217 - Let thy thoughts be of things which have not entered into the hearts of beasts ; think of things long past, and long to come ; acquaint thyself with the choragium of the stars, and consider the vast expansion beyond them. Let intellectual tubes give thee a glance of things which visive organs reach not. Have a glimpse of incomprehensibles ; and thoughts of things which thoughts but tenderly touch.