 | Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 pagine
...mind, and an " understanding heart." Surely the heathen knew better how to join and read these mystic letters than we Christians, who cast a more careless...disdain to suck Divinity from the flowers of Nature. SOUTHEY. WHERE do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real Poetry ? But we despise these... | |
 | 1823 - 400 pagine
...in the other all his miracles; surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystical letters, than we CHRISTIANS, who cast a more careless...disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of Nature. SIR T. BROWNE. Thus I fix my firm belief While Rapture's gushing tears descend, That every flower and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pagine
...in the other all his miracles : surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystical letters, than we Christians, who cast a more careless...disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of nature. Nor do I so forget God as to adore the name of nature ; which I define not, with the schools, to be... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pagine
...in the other all his miracles. Surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystical letters, than we Christians, who cast a more careless...disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of nature. Nor do I so forget God as to adore the name of Nature ; which I define not with the schools, to be... | |
 | 1831 - 370 pagine
...in the other all his miracles. Surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystical letters, than we Christians, who cast a more careless...disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of nature. Nor do I so forget God as to adore the name of Nature ; which I define not with the schools, to be... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pagine
...in the other, all his miracles. Surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystical letters than we Christians, who cast a more careless...disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of nature. Nor do I so forget God as to adore the name of nature ; which I define not, with the schools, to be... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pagine
...in the other, all his miracles. Surely the heathens knew hetter how to join and read these mystical letters than we Christians, who \ cast a more careless eye on these common hieroglyphies, and disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of nature. Nor do I so forget God as to... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pagine
...admiration in them than all his miracles. Surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystic letters than we Christians, who cast a more careless...disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of nature The Doctor. TI» THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE 119 EASY LESSONS ON CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES. V. MIRACLES. РАНТ... | |
 | 1867 - 740 pagine
...miracles. Surely the heathens know better how to join these mystical letters than we Christians n ho cast a more careless eye on these common hieroglyphics,...disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of Nature. — Religio Medici. — SIR T. BROWNE. Let parents choose betimes the vocations and courses they mean... | |
 | George William Francis - 1844 - 278 pagine
...scripture and theology of the heathen. Surely they know better how to join and read these mystical letters than we Christians, who cast a more careless...disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of nature." Let the botanist take up one, no matter which, of the vegetable productions in his path ; let him examine... | |
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... of the sun made them more admire him than its supernatural station did the children of Israel; the ordinary effects of nature wrought more admiration in them than in the other all his miracles. Surely the heathens knew better how to join and read... 
