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The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion - Page 67
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture ; he that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man.' Resume. — The opinions and feelings that had been growing up in the bosom of private families now...
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Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend

Sir Thomas Browne - 1882 - 220 pages
...do measure my body, it comprehendeth not my mind. 'Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity jn us ; jama, thing that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto-the sun. Nature tells me,T...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...it hath an end cannot persuade me I have any: . . . whilst I stndy to find how I am a mierocosm or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and Other ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1886 - 542 pages
...the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man. Let me not injure the felicity of others, if I say I am as happy as any. Ruat ccelum, fiat voluntas...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...do measure rny body, it comprehendeth not my mind. Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or nd at his morning levees. We hold the good hours of the dawn in us ; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I...
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Religio Medici

Sir Thomas Browne - 1839 - 204 pages
...the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction, or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man. Let me not injure the felicity of others, if I say I am as happy as any ; Biiat cesium, fiat voluntas...
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Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend; Christian Morals; Urn-burial and Other ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1889 - 466 pages
...comprehendeth not my mind : whilst I study to find how I am a Microcosm, or little World, I find my self something more than the great. There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun. Nature tells me I am...
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A Grateful Spirit and Other Sermons

James Vila Blake - 1890 - 376 pages
...arc do measure my body, it comprehendeth not my mind. Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am...
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Contributions of physicians to English and American literature

Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 pages
...it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. * * * Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or a little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us — something that was before the heavens, and owes' no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 11

1903 - 548 pages
...the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man. With these eloquent words still ringing in our ears, it is fitting that we close this chronicle of...
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