 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 still as though it had not been, or as it was before...  The Quarterly Review - Page 377edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 pages
...being beafts; without this the world is ftill as tho' it had not been, or as it was before the fixth day, when as yet there was not a creature that could conceive, or „-. fay there was a world* The wifdom of God receives fmall honour from thofe vulgar heads, that... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts; without this, the worjd is still as though it had not been, or as it was before the sixth...about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works. Those highly magnify him, whose judicious enquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his creatures,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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...about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works. Those highly magnify him, whose judicious enquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his creatures,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...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...about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works : those highly magnify him whose judicious enquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works ; those highly magnify him, whose judicious inquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his... | |
 | George Johnston - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1829 - 636 pages
...after his kind, and pronounced them " very good." " The wisdom of God," says a learned physician, " receives small honour from those vulgar heads that...about, and with a gross rusticity admire His works ; those highly magnifie him, whose judicious inquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...reason we owe unto (Jod, and the homage we pay for not being beasts; without this, the world is still as art s + head* Unit rudely stare about, and with a. gross rusticity admire his works ; those highly magnify... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...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...about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works : those highly magnify him, whose judicious inquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...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...there was a world. The wisdom of God receives small honor from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works.... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...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...there was a world. The wisdom of God receives small honor from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works.... | |
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