 | David Loewenstein - 2006 - 472 sidor
...the epicycle of my own brain" (Religio Medici, I. vi.). Compare too his Christian Morals, I. xix. : " Hang early plummets upon the heels of pride, and let...have but an epicycle and narrow circuit in thee." For eccentric, see the note on v. 623, and compare one of Milton's favourite astronomical metaphors... | |
 | 1880 - 538 sidor
...are given free of all expense to the citizens. BE substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others, and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. — Sir Thos. Brown. "THE FUNCTION OF MIRTHFULNESS."; To the Editor of THE PHRENOLOGICAL MAGAZINE.... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1883 - 808 sidor
...Browne, in his Christian Morals, says : — " Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are iu the lights of heaven." CCV. BOIbED LOBSTEES. A cook, who for the first time had boiled a lobster,... | |
 | Thomas Price, William Hendry Stowell, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1866 - 610 sidor
...heaven. Think not thy own shadow longer than tha'ht, take the altitude of thyself. Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave, and reckon thyself above the earth by the line thou must be contented with under it. When God forsakes us, Satac... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 348 sidor
...heels of pride, and let ambition have but an epicycle or narrow circuit in thee. Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave ; and reckon thyself above * Holy, holy, holy. t Even when the days are shortest. t Alluding to the Tower of Oblivion... | |
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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others ; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. 
