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... observation of her own laws ; if those principal and mother elements , whereof all things are made in this lower world , should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should ...
... observation of her own laws ; if those principal and mother elements , whereof all things are made in this lower world , should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should ...
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... observe the absurdity of dreams , but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts , I am well satisfied , that being awake I know I dream not , though when I dream I think myself awake . And seeing dreams are caused by the ...
... observe the absurdity of dreams , but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts , I am well satisfied , that being awake I know I dream not , though when I dream I think myself awake . And seeing dreams are caused by the ...
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... observe it with a cheerful willingness . And indeed her unforced humility , a humility that in her was so original as to be born with her , made her happy as to do so ; and her doing so begat her an unfeigned love , and a service- able ...
... observe it with a cheerful willingness . And indeed her unforced humility , a humility that in her was so original as to be born with her , made her happy as to do so ; and her doing so begat her an unfeigned love , and a service- able ...
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... observe and imitate them ; all the rest at best are but particulars fit to be turned into know- ledge ; but that can be done only by our own meditation , and examining the reach , force , and coherence of what is said ; and then as far ...
... observe and imitate them ; all the rest at best are but particulars fit to be turned into know- ledge ; but that can be done only by our own meditation , and examining the reach , force , and coherence of what is said ; and then as far ...
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... observe in all languages certain words , that , if they be examined , will be found in their first original , and in their appropriated use , not to stand for any clear and distinct ideas . These , for the most part , the several sects ...
... observe in all languages certain words , that , if they be examined , will be found in their first original , and in their appropriated use , not to stand for any clear and distinct ideas . These , for the most part , the several sects ...
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Page 73 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 46 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 80 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 74 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 66 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and...
Page 77 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 73 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 66 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts ; it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Page 45 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 38 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...