...William Shakespeare; but what he said in the seventeenth century applies still today: The wi sedóme of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a grosse rusticity admire his workes; those highly magnifie him, whose judicious enquiry into his acts,...

...but what he said in the seventeenth century applies still today: The wisedome of God receives emall honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a grosse rusticity admire his workes; those highly magnifie him, whose judicious enquiry fnto his acts,...

..."blind curiosity"; wondering had to be connected to learning if God were to be served: "The wisdome of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads, that rudely stare about, and with a grosse rusticity admire his workes; those highly magnifie him whose judicious enquiry into his acts,...

...starry firmament, or the contrivance of complex creatures. Thomas Browne observed that the 'wisdome of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads, that rudely stare about, and with a grosse rusticity admire his workes; those highly magnify him whose judicious enquiry into his acts,...

...being beasts; without this the world is still as though it had not been, or as it was before the sixt day when as yet there was not a creature that could conceive, or say there was a world. The wisedome of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads, that rudely stare about, and with a...

...— who in doing so "highly magnifie him." We are not all equal to exacting disciplines. I was one of "those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire his workes." Still, it could be argued that admiring his works with a gross rusticity is preferable to...

...The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man . . . The wisedome of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads, that rudely stare about, and with a grosse rusticity admire his workes; those highly magnifie him whose judicious enquiry into his acts,...

...retributive. ' British Library MS Sloane 1911-13, f. 78. 'The wisdom of God', he says in Religio Medici, 'receives small honour from those vulgar heads that...about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works.' His own 'humble speculations', he goes on to say, 'more highly magnify [H]im', and 'return the duty...

...reason we owe unto God." For in the absence of human consciousness, the universe would still be "as though it had not been, or as it was before the sixth...a creature that could conceive or say there was a world."'0 In The I'oet fit the Breakfast Table, the Poet will give his own version of the same point...

...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...those vulgar heads that rudely stare about and with gross rusticity admire his works — those highly magnify him, whose judicious inquiry into his acts...