Difference(s) between text #96716 and text #153801

Go to the Instructions

11Nunc, lento, sonitu dicunt, morieris.Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill as that he knows
22The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth. not it tolls for him. And perchance I may think myself so much better
33Morieris.than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have
44Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The church is
55but who takes off his eye from a comet when that breaks out? catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does,
66Who bends not his ear to any bell, which upon any occasion rings? belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me;
77Morieris. for that child is thereby connected to that head which is my head too,
88But who can remove it from that bell which is passing and ingraffed into that body, whereof I am a member. And when she
99a piece of himself out of the world? buries a man, that action concerns me; all mankind is of one author,
1010Nunc, lento, sonitu dicunt, morieris. and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of
1111No man is an island, entire of itself; the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter
1212no man is an island, entire of itself; must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces
1313every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice;
1414If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all
1515as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall
1616of thy friends or of thine own were. lie open to one another; as therefore the bell that rings to a sermon,
1717Morieris. calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come;
1818Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so
1919Morieris. near the door by this sickness.
2020And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
2121it tolls for thee. There was a contention as far as a suit (in which, piety and dignity,
2222Nunc, lento, sonitu dicunt, morieris.religion and estimation, were mingled) which of the religious orders
23should ring to prayers first in the morning; and it was determined,
24that they should ring first that rose earliest. If we understand
25aright the dignity of this bell, that tolls for our evening prayer, we
26would be glad to make it ours, by rising early, in that application,
27that it might be ours as well as his, whose indeed it is. The bell
28doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again,
29yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is
30united to God. Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises?
31But who takes off his eye from a comet, when that breaks out? who
32bends not his ear to any bell, which upon any occasion rings? But who
33can remove it from that bell, which is passing a piece of himself out
34of this world?
35
36No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
37continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea,
38Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
39manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes
40me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know
41for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
42
43Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of
44misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must
45fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our
46neighbors. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did; for
47affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No
48man hath afflicion enough, that is not matured and ripened by it, and
49made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in
50bullion or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current
51moneys, his treasure will not defray him as he travels. Tribulation
52is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the
53use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it.
54Another may be sick too, and sick to death, and this affliction may
55lie in his bowels, as gold in a mine, and be of no use to him; but
56this bell that tells me of his affliction, digs out, and applies that
57gold to me: if by this consideration of another's danger, I take mine
58own into contemplation, and so secure myself, by making my recourse to
59my God, who is our only security.

Instructions

To select texts manually for this utility, click on the link at the top of each of the two texts you wish to compare, and then return to this page and reload it. The text ids are stored as cookies.