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-IVH. G. Bohn, 1852 |
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... common errors ; the common infirmity of human nature Chap . 1 . Chap . 2 . A further illustration of the same 12 72 Chap . 3 . Chap . 4 . Chap . 5 . Chap . 6 . Of another more immediate . Of the more immediate causes of common errors ...
... common errors ; the common infirmity of human nature Chap . 1 . Chap . 2 . A further illustration of the same 12 72 Chap . 3 . Chap . 4 . Chap . 5 . Chap . 6 . Of another more immediate . Of the more immediate causes of common errors ...
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... common opinions and relations thereof ; natural , medical , his- torical , magical Of bodies electrical Chap . 4 . Chap . 5. Compendiously of sundry other common tenets concern- ing minerals and terreous bodies , which , examined ...
... common opinions and relations thereof ; natural , medical , his- torical , magical Of bodies electrical Chap . 4 . Chap . 5. Compendiously of sundry other common tenets concern- ing minerals and terreous bodies , which , examined ...
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... common course of our diet , in making choice of some animals and abstaining from eating others Chap . 26. Of the spermaceti whale . Chap . 27. Compendiously , of the musical note of swans before their death ; that the flesh of peacocks ...
... common course of our diet , in making choice of some animals and abstaining from eating others Chap . 26. Of the spermaceti whale . Chap . 27. Compendiously , of the musical note of swans before their death ; that the flesh of peacocks ...
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... common fate of orphans , * defrauded by one of his guardians ; and that he was placed for his education at the school of Win- chester.f His mother , having taken three thousand pounds , † as the third part of her husband's property ...
... common fate of orphans , * defrauded by one of his guardians ; and that he was placed for his education at the school of Win- chester.f His mother , having taken three thousand pounds , † as the third part of her husband's property ...
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... Common Errors ; a work , which as it arose not from fancy and invention , but from observation and books , and contained not a single discourse of one continued tenor , of which the latter part rose from the former , but an enumeration ...
... Common Errors ; a work , which as it arose not from fancy and invention , but from observation and books , and contained not a single discourse of one continued tenor , of which the latter part rose from the former , but an enumeration ...
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