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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... whole mines , books written by philosophers , and a man may grow rich in that metal , in that virtue , by digging in that mine , in the precepts of moral men ; of this gold ( this virtue of repentance ) there is no mine in the earth ...
... whole mines , books written by philosophers , and a man may grow rich in that metal , in that virtue , by digging in that mine , in the precepts of moral men ; of this gold ( this virtue of repentance ) there is no mine in the earth ...
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... whole church of God : present that which belongs to the understanding , to that faculty , and the understanding is not presently settled in it ; present any of the prophecies made in the captivity , and a Jew's understanding takes them ...
... whole church of God : present that which belongs to the understanding , to that faculty , and the understanding is not presently settled in it ; present any of the prophecies made in the captivity , and a Jew's understanding takes them ...
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... whole church , ( as it is almost an incomprehensible thing , that in so few years he made us of the Reformation , equal even in number to our adversaries of the Roman church , ) if thy memory have not held that picture of our general ...
... whole church , ( as it is almost an incomprehensible thing , that in so few years he made us of the Reformation , equal even in number to our adversaries of the Roman church , ) if thy memory have not held that picture of our general ...
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... whole sheaves , whether thy increase be by little and little , or apace ; ) and offer thyself , as primitias panum , when thou hast kneaded up riches , and honour , and favour in a settled and established fortune , offer at thy Easter ...
... whole sheaves , whether thy increase be by little and little , or apace ; ) and offer thyself , as primitias panum , when thou hast kneaded up riches , and honour , and favour in a settled and established fortune , offer at thy Easter ...
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... whole course of thy time ) is disordered with passions , and perturbations ; when thy book ( the history of thy life , ) is torn , a thousand sins of thine own torn out of thy memory , wilt thou then present thyself thus defaced and ...
... whole course of thy time ) is disordered with passions , and perturbations ; when thy book ( the history of thy life , ) is torn , a thousand sins of thine own torn out of thy memory , wilt thou then present thyself thus defaced and ...
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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.