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" God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and evacuate such... "
The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby]. - Page 483
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3

Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1912 - 638 pages
...hath necessitated their Contentment: But the superiour ingredient and obscured part of our selves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last-to tell us we are more then our present selves ; and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their...
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Hydriotaphia

Sir Thomas Browne - Norfolk (England) - 1922 - 180 pages
...hath necessitated their Contentment: But the superiour ingredient and obscured part of our selves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us we are more then our present selves ; and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. 5....
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Hydriotaphia

Sir Thomas Browne - Norfolk (England) - 1922 - 174 pages
...present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us we are more then our present selves ; and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. 5. Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under...
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Sir Thomas Browne: A Study in Religious Philosophy

William Parmly Dunn - 1926 - 210 pages
...rests in the traditional way on the argument of the soul's aspirations, contending that "the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at least to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their...
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Sir Thomas Browne

William P Dunn - 1950 - 193 pages
...part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at least to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments." On this argument together with his faith in the I, 1g. 30 /bid., II, 11. 31 Advancement of Learning,...
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English Spirituality: From Earliest Times to 1700

Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 572 pages
...progressionall, and otherwise made in vaine . . . But the superiour ingredient and obscured part of our selves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment,...selves; and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of dieir own accomplishment.415 This 'superiour ingredient and obscured part of our selves' is deeply...
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Selected Writings

Sir Thomas Browne - Literary Collections - 2003 - 180 pages
...superior ingrediem and obseured part ofourseKes, whereto all presem felieities afford no resting eomemmem, will be able at last to tell us we are more than our presem selves, and evaeuateо sueh hopes in the fruition of their own aeeomplishmems. К Urn -Burial...
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American Practitioner and News, Volume 7

Medicine - 1873 - 404 pages
...cognition of better things, the wisdom of God has necessitated their contentment. But the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments." The following extract is from Religio Medici: "Now, for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which...
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