 God, and with joy I mention it, I was never afraid of hell, nor never grew pale at the description of that place. I have so fixed my contemplations on heaven, that I have almost forgot the idea of hell, and am afraid rather to lose the joys of the one,...  The works of Sir Thomas Browne - Page 73by Sir Thomas Browne - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Browne (sir.) - 1754
...almoft forgot the idea of hell, and am afraid rather to lofe the joys of the one than endure the mifery of the other; to be deprived of them is a perfect...afflictions ; that terrible term hath never detained me from fin, nor do I owe any good action to the name thereof: I fear God, yet am not afraid of him ; his mercies... | |
 | Religion - 1816
...description : I have to fixed my contemplation <m heaven, that I have almost forgot the idea of iU contrary, and am afraid rather to lose the joys of the one, than cnduru the sufferings •f tho other ! To be deprived of them, it • perfect hell, and Bccils, methinls,... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1831
...immortality. I thank God, and with joy I mention it, I was never afraid of hell, nor never grew pale at the description of that place. I have so fixed my contemplations...perfect hell, and needs, methinks, no addition to complete our afflictions. That terrible term hath never detained me from sin, nor do I owe any good... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Gardening - 1831 - 304 pages
...immortality^ I thank God, and with joy I mention it, I was never afraid of hell, nor never grew pale at the description of that place. I have so fixed my contemplations...perfect hell, and needs, methinks, no addition to complete our afflictions. That terrible term hath never detained me from sin, nor do I owe any good... | |
| Thomas Browne (sir.) - 1831
...LII. I thank God that with joy I mention it, I was never afraid of hell, nor never grew pale at the description of that place ; I have so fixed my contemplations...perfect hell, and needs, methinks, no addition to complete our afflictions. That terrible term hath never detained me from sin, nor do I owe any good... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835
...— I thank God, and with joy I mention it, I was ' never afraid of hell, nor ever grew pale at the description of that place. I have so fixed my contemplations...a perfect hell, and needs methinks no addition to complete our afflictions. That terrible term hath never detained me from sin, nor do I owe any good... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835
...fixed my contemplations_ on heaven, that I have_aJmost forgot_the_idŁa of hell; and am afraid father" to lose the joys of the one, than endure the misery...a perfect hell, and needs methinks no addition to complete our afflictions. That terrible term hath never detained me from sin, nor do I owe any good... | |
 | John Hobart Caunter - 1839
...age.* " I thank God that (with joy I mention it) I was never afraid of hell, nor never grew pale at the description of that place: I have so fixed my contemplations...the joys of the one, than endure the misery of the other—to be deprived of them is a perfect hell, and needs, methinks, no addition to complete our... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne, James Augustus St. John - Religion - 1841
...immortality. I thank God that (with joy I mention it) I was never afraid of hell, nor never grew pale at the description of that place : I have so fixed my contemplations...perfect hell, and needs, methinks, no addition to complete our afflictions : that terrible term hath never detained me from sin, nor do I owe any good... | |
 | Religion - 1843
...true. " I thank God, and with joy I mention it, I was never afraid of hell, nor never grew pale at the description of that place. I have so fixed my contemplations...perfect hell, and needs, methinks, no addition to complete our afflictions. That terrible term hath never detained me from sin, nor do I owe any good... | |
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