| Maurice Parmelee - 1916 - 510 pages
...93. 1 This is suggested by the following statement from a well-known Protestant religious writer: — "I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfill and accomplish the will and command of my God." (Sir T. Brown, Religio Medici, Part II, 2.)... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 310 pages
...great work_of charity, must-have other motives, _ends, and impulsions: I give no alms only to satisfie the hunger of my Brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the Will and Command of my God: I draw not my purse for his sake that""\ demands it, but his that enjoyned it; I relieve no man J upon... | |
| 1904 - 966 pages
...individual. They would probably, if questioned, say frankly with Sir Thomas Browne, " I give no alms only to satisfy the hunger of my Brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the Will and Command of my God." And if the Religio Medici be somewhat out of date, — superseded, we are told, by a finer altruism... | |
| 1909 - 378 pages
...great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms only to satisfie the hunger of my Brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the Will and Command of my GOD: I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but His That enjoyned it: I relieve no man upon the... | |
| David Macarov - 1995 - 348 pages
...strictly speaking, purely results of religious motivation. 1n this sense Sir Thomas Browne said, "1 give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfill and accomplish the will and command of my God; 1 draw not my purse for his sake that demands... | |
| Edward Wait - 1996 - 320 pages
...common principle, 'Doe unto others as thou wouldst be done unto thy self; yet I give no alms to satisfie the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of God. This general and indifferent temper of mine doth nearly dispose me to this noble virtue amongst... | |
| 1913 - 612 pages
...seem to labor among the poor on the principle which Sir Thomas Browne laid d6wn for his charities — "I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother,...fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but His that enjoined it." We irreverent moderns... | |
| 1911 - 168 pages
...same narrow view outlasted the times of the schoolmen. " I give no alms," said Sir Thomas Browne, " to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God " ; and, in so saying, forgot the gospel he followed, which makes the love of one's brother come first... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 348 pages
...Therefore this great work of charity, must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms only to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God. I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it. I relieve no man upon the... | |
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