The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 6J.W. Parker, 1839 |
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... doth any ambitious man love honour or office therefore , because he thinks that title , or that place should receive a dignity by his having it , or an excellency by his executing it ? doth any covetous man love a house or horse ...
... doth any ambitious man love honour or office therefore , because he thinks that title , or that place should receive a dignity by his having it , or an excellency by his executing it ? doth any covetous man love a house or horse ...
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... doth it also principally another way , that is , rather than any affection else ; for , the fear of God is the ... doth love us all so well , from the beginning , as that every man may see the fault was in the perverseness of his own ...
... doth it also principally another way , that is , rather than any affection else ; for , the fear of God is the ... doth love us all so well , from the beginning , as that every man may see the fault was in the perverseness of his own ...
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... doth not love with an everlasting love : God will not suffer his love to be idle , and since it profits him nothing , if it profits us nothing neither , he will withdraw it ; Amor Dei ut lumen ignis , ut splendor solis , ut odor lucis ...
... doth not love with an everlasting love : God will not suffer his love to be idle , and since it profits him nothing , if it profits us nothing neither , he will withdraw it ; Amor Dei ut lumen ignis , ut splendor solis , ut odor lucis ...
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... Doth not wisdom cry , and understanding utter her voice ? where those two words , wisdom and understanding , signify sapientiam , and prudentiam ; that wisdom whose object is God , and that which concerns our conversation in this world ...
... Doth not wisdom cry , and understanding utter her voice ? where those two words , wisdom and understanding , signify sapientiam , and prudentiam ; that wisdom whose object is God , and that which concerns our conversation in this world ...
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... doth save some of them : but yet is not near them , that is , they have no ordinary nor established way of attaining to it , because Christ is not manifested to them in an ordinary preaching of the Word , and an ordinary administration ...
... doth save some of them : but yet is not near them , that is , they have no ordinary nor established way of attaining to it , because Christ is not manifested to them in an ordinary preaching of the Word , and an ordinary administration ...
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Page 174 - But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee...
Page 60 - And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
Page 255 - Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
Page 5 - I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Page 548 - Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when...
Page 43 - But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 553 - Come, live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Page 555 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 232 - But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.
Page 53 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt ; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.