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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV

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Sir Thomas Browne

H. G. Bohn, 1852

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DR JOHNSONS LIFE OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE	ix

MRS LYTTLETONS COMMUNICATION TO BISHOP KENNET	lxviii

Chap	2

A further illustration of the same	12

Chap 3	19

Chap 4	37

Of authors who have most promoted popular conceit	59

Of others indirectly effecting the same	72

Chap 5	241

That a bear brings forth her cubs informous or unshaped	247

That a wolf first seeing a man begets a dumbness in him	261

Of frogs toads and toadstone	284

That a salamander lives in the fire	291

That young vipers force their way through the bowels	297

That all animals of the land are in their kind in the sea	344

Of the spermaceti whale	353

A further illustration of the same	86

THE SECOND BOOK beginning the particular part Of popular	94

Concerning the loadstone of things particularly spoken	112

Compendiously of sundry other common tenets concern	166

Of sundry tenets concerning vegetables or plants which	192

Of some insects and the properties of several plants	210

THE THIRD BOOK the particular part continued	219

Chap 2	227

That a pigeon hath no gall	235

Chap 1	359

Chap 2	369

That the heart is on the left side	383

Of the right and left hand	391

33	392

On swimming and floating	402

That there are several passages for meat and drink	408

Of pigmies	421

Of the canicular or dogdays	446

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Title	The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV Volume 1 of The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Thomas Browne
Author	Sir Thomas Browne
Editor	Simon Wilkin
Publisher	H. G. Bohn, 1852
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	12 Nov 2008

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