 ... tis the debt of our reason 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 day, when as yet there was not a creature that could conceive or say there...  The Intellectual Observer - Page 1381863Full view - About this book
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...trace and discover those expressions he hath left in his creatures, and the obvious effects of nature; there is no danger to profound these mysteries, no...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 this,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1820 - 200 pages
...trace and discover those expressions he hath left in his creatures, and the obvious effects of nature : there is no danger to profound these mysteries, no...studied and contemplated by man: 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts; without this, the world is... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...trace and discover those expressions he hath left in his creatures, and the obvious effects of nature : there is no danger to profound these mysteries, no...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 - 180 pages
...trace and discover those expressions he hath left in his creatures, and the obvious effects of nature : there is no danger to profound these mysteries, no...studied and contemplated by man : 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts : without this, the world is... | |
 | 1831 - 370 pages
...trace and discover those expressions he hath left in his creatures, and the obvious effects of nature. There is no danger to profound these mysteries, no...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...trace and discover those expressions he hath left in his creatures, and the obvious effects of nature. There is no danger to profound these mysteries, no...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 - 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...effects of nature. There is no danger to profound9 these mysteries, no sanctum sanctorum in philosophy.i The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man:2 't is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts. Without... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...needs not to be patroned by passion, but can sustain itself upon a temperate dispute. THE STUDENT. THE world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man : 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts ; without this the world is... | |
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