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Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 2

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sir Thomas Browne

1878

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THE FIFTH BOOK the particular part continued Of many things questionable	1

Chap	4

Chap	19

Of the picture of Moses with horns	29

Of the hieroglyphical pictures of the Egyptians	65

Of the picture of God the Father of the sun moon and winds	72

viz of	79

Of popular customs opinions c of the prediction of the year	91

Of some computation of days and deductions of one part of the year	127

Of the river Nilus	163

A digression concerning blackness	197

That the forbidden fruit was an apple	210

viz of the woman that conceived in	259

viz of the poverty of Belisarius of fluctus decu	267

viz that the army of Xerxes drank	276

Of some relations whose truth we fear	284

Chap 7	97

THE SIXTH BOOK the particular part continued Of popular and received tenets	103

Chap 2	115

Of the divisions of the seasons and four quarters of the year	122

Editors preface	293

The epistle dedicatory	304

THE GARDEN OF CYRUS	489

The stationer to the reader	564

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Title	Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 2 Bohn's antiq. libr Bohn's standard libr Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, sir Thomas Browne
Author	sir Thomas Browne
Editor	Simon Wilkin
Published	1878
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	19 Jun 2007

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