I am not so much afraid of Death, as ashamed thereof. Tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, Wife, and Children, stand afraid and start at us... Religio Medici - Page 75by Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 150 pagesFull view - About this book
| sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 pages
...our neareft friends, wife and children, Hand afraid and ftart at us. The birds and beafts of the Meld that before, in a natural fear obeyed us, forgetting...begin to prey upon us. This very conceit hath in a tempeft difpofed, and left me willing to be fwallowed up in the abyfs of waters ; wherein I had perifhed,... | |
| United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...ashamed thereof; 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment it can so distigure us, that our nearest friends, wife, and children, stand afraid and start at us :" then adding, " Not that I can accuse nature for playing the bungler in any part of me. or my own... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 412 pages
...us, that our neareft friends, wife, and children, ftand afraid and ftart at us. The birds and beafts of the field, that before in a natural fear obeyed...forgetting all allegiance, begin to prey upon us. f This very conceit hath in a tempeft difpofed and left me willing to be fwallowed up in the abyfs... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 420 pages
...us, that our neareft friends, wife, and children, ftand afraid and ftart at us. The birds and beafts of the field, that before in a natural fear obeyed us, forgetting all allegiance, begin to prey upon us.f This very conceit hath in a tempeft difpofed and left me willing to be fwallowed up in the abyfs... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 584 pages
...ashamed thereof; 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, wife, and children, stand afraid, and start 7 at us. The birds and beasts of the 9 not without life, sense, and reason.] In perfect consistency... | |
| Unitarianism - 1865 - 834 pages
...ashamed thereof: 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our nature that in a moment can so disfigure us that our nearest friends, wife and children, stand afraid, and start at us." Uncle Ephraim. — His thoughts might have been fixed upon something better than corruption and the... | |
| Francis Jacox - Death in literature - 1873 - 490 pages
...Medici speaks of it as "the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, wife, and children, stand afraid, and start at us." But sometimes the reluctance to gaze on the dead is to spare oneself grief, and to avoid a last association... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1878 - 480 pages
...ashamed thereof: 't is the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, wife, and children,...This very conceit hath in a tempest disposed and left mo willing to be swallowed up in the abyss of waters, wherein I had perished unseen, unpitied, without... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Burial - 1878 - 598 pages
...'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our O nearest friends, wife, and children, stand afraid...This very conceit hath in a tempest disposed and left ms willing to be swallowed up in the abyss of waters, wherein I had perished unseen, unpitied, without... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1881 - 466 pages
...ashamed thereof. 'Tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, Wife, and Children,...the abyss of waters, wherein I had perished unseen, unpityed, without wondering eyes, tears of pity, Virgil, Lectures of mortality, and none had said,... | |
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