 The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man: it is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts...  Religio Medici - Page 26by Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 150 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...actions springing from his power, at the first touch of his will. These are contemplations metaphysical ; my humble speculations have another method, and are...inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man: it is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts ; without... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...actions springing from his power, at the first touch of his will. These are contemplations metaphysical ; my humble speculations have another method, and, are...expressions he hath left in his creatures, and the obw'uus effects of nature ; there is BO danger to profound these mysteries, no " sanctum sanctontm"... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...actions springing from his power, at the first touch of his will. These are contemplations metaphysical ; my humble speculations have another method, and are...sanctum sanctorum" in philosophy. The world was made to bf inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man: it is the debt of our reason we owe unto... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...actions springing from his power at the first touch of his will. These are contemplations metaphysical : my humble speculations have another method, and are...inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man : it is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts ; without... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...action springing from his power, at the first touch of his will. These are contemplations metaphysical : my humble speculations have another method, and are...inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man : 't is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts. Without... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...action springing from his power, at the first touch of his will. These are contemplations metaphysical : my humble speculations have another method, and are...inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man : 't is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts. Without... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...life as an experience full of significance is every where obvious in Browne. " The world," he says, " was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man ; it is the debt of our reason we owe unto God and the homage we pay for not being beasts. The wisdom... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...actions springing from his power at the first touch of his will. These are contemplations metaphysical : my humble speculations have another method, and are...trace and discover those expressions he hath left in8 his creatures, and the obvious ii. Nosce teipsum. 4 .... knowledge soever.] The whole is no thread... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...effects of nature. There is no danger to profound9 these mysteries, no sanctum sanctorum in philosophy.1 The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man :e 't is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts. Without... | |
 | 1839 - 586 pages
...\3ftt Light Dragoons. It is the remark of the eminent philosopher and physician Sir Thomas Browne, that the world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man. The world is here referred to in a general sense, including the whole world of nature — not in that... | |
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