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sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. BOHN'S ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY . THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . VOLUME III . THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . EDITED BY SIMON 2579.
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. BOHN'S ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY . THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . VOLUME III . THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . EDITED BY SIMON 2579.
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sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. Tract 7 . Of ropalic or gradual verses , & c . Tract 8 . Tract 9 . Page 221 223 Of ... Browne's Letters to his son Edward Dr. Browne's Letters vi CONTENTS .
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. Tract 7 . Of ropalic or gradual verses , & c . Tract 8 . Tract 9 . Page 221 223 Of ... Browne's Letters to his son Edward Dr. Browne's Letters vi CONTENTS .
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sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. Dr. Browne's Letters to his son Edward Dr. Browne's Letters to his son Thomas Mr. Thos . Browne to his father Dr. Browne to his son Thomas Page 412 415 to 418 419 to 421 Dr. Browne's Correspondence with Mr ...
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. Dr. Browne's Letters to his son Edward Dr. Browne's Letters to his son Thomas Mr. Thos . Browne to his father Dr. Browne to his son Thomas Page 412 415 to 418 419 to 421 Dr. Browne's Correspondence with Mr ...
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sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. The dead seem all alive in the human Hades of Homer , yet cannot well speak ... Thomas's Common - place Books occurs this sentence , apparently as a memorandum to write such a dialogue . And from " A ...
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. The dead seem all alive in the human Hades of Homer , yet cannot well speak ... Thomas's Common - place Books occurs this sentence , apparently as a memorandum to write such a dialogue . And from " A ...
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... Thomas Browne's daughter , who lived with her father when it was composed by him and who , at the time , read it written by his own hand ; and also by the testimony of others ( of whom I am one ) who read the manuscript of the author ...
... Thomas Browne's daughter , who lived with her father when it was composed by him and who , at the time , read it written by his own hand ; and also by the testimony of others ( of whom I am one ) who read the manuscript of the author ...
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Page 178 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 172 - Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen ; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Page 152 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together...
Page 549 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640.
Page 45 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 43 - Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle J must conclude and shut up all There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 45 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Page 48 - Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of pre-ordination, and night of their fore-beings. And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world...
Page 42 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism ; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial...
Page 549 - In 2 vols. • - ; or, with the plates coloured, 7*. 6d. per vol. Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain ; or, Calendar of Victory. Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on every day in the year, from the time of William the Conqueror to the Battle of Inkermann.