The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man : 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts : without this, the world is still as though it had not been, or as it was before... The Quarterly Review - Página 377editado por - 1851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Charles Alfred Ballance - 1922 - 126 páginas
...surgery and surgical pathology by way of experiment. Sir Thomas Browne l says in a beautiful passage : The wisdom of God receives small honour from those...about, and with a gross rusticity admire His works. Those highly magnify Him, whose judicious enquiry into His acts, and deliberate research into His creatures... | |
| Basil Anderton - 1922 - 208 páginas
...runs into irritating verse-rhythms. For example, in one place we get two consecutive blank verses: Those vulgar Heads that rudely stare about And with a gross rusticity admire His works. Elsewhere he ends a sentence with the closing half of a hexameter, "one in the Trunk of a Cedar" —... | |
| William Parmly Dunn - 1926 - 210 páginas
...by man; 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God." And then with quaint gravity he remarks that "the wisdom of God receives small honour from those...about, and with a gross rusticity, admire his works" ; rather do we owe him "the duty of a devout and learned admiration." The thought is reminiscent of... | |
| 1926 - 706 páginas
...to cherish most beautiful sentences of Sir Thomas Browne's: "The wisdom of God receives small honor from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire His works. Those highly magnify Him, whose judicious enquiry into His acts, and deliberate research with His creatures,... | |
| Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth - 1880 - 678 páginas
...debt of oar reason we owe unto God, and the homage that we pay for not being beasts, . . . The wUdom of God receives small honour from those Vulgar heads...about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works. Those highly magnify him, whose judicious inquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his creation,... | |
| William P Dunn - 1950 - 193 páginas
...owe unto God." And then with quaint gravity he remarks that "the wisdom of God receives small honor from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works"; rather do we owe him "the duty of a devout and learned admiration." The thought is reminiscent of a... | |
| 1909 - 378 páginas
...before n " Know thyself." This, like other ancient oracles, Browne ascribes to the Devil. M Plunge into. the sixth day, when as yet there was not a Creature...about, and with a gross rusticity admire His works: those highly magnifie Him, whose judicious inquiry into His Acts, and deliberate research into His... | |
| 1914 - 522 páginas
...man ; 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage that we pay for not being beasts. The wisdom of God receives small honour from those...about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works. Those highly magnify Him whose judicious inquiry into His arts, and deliberate research into His creation,... | |
| Peter G. Bourne - 1974 - 204 páginas
...case of those under discussion here. Sir Thomas Browne, himself a physician, once wrote: The wisedome of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a grosse rusticity admire his workers; those highly magnifie him, whose judicious enquiry into his acts,... | |
| Clarence J. Glacken - 1976 - 806 páginas
...Reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being Beasts; without this, the World is still as though it had not been, or as it was before the sixth...Creature that could conceive, or say there was a World." Again we meet the thought that it is God-given reason possessed alone by man that gives meaning to... | |
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