| Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Contributor(s): Donne, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 141911574X ISBN-13: 9781419115745 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: WHAT will not kill a man if a vapour will? How great an elephant, how small a mouse destroys! To die by a bullet is the soldier's daily bread; but few men die by hail-shot. A man is more worth than to be sold for single money; a life to be valued above a trifle. If this were a violent shaking of the air by thunder or by cannon, in that case the air is condensed above the thickness of water, of water baked into ice, almost petrified, almost made stone, and no wonder that kills; but that which is but a vapour, and a vapour not forced but breathed, should kill, that our nurse should overlay us, and air that nourishes us should destroy us, but that it is a half atheism to murmur against Nature, who is God's immediate commissioner, who would not think himself miserable to be put into the hands of Nature. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 242 |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.47 lbs) 116 pages |
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