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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Sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. ARTES 1817 SCIENTIA VERITAS LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PLURT US UMUM TUEBOR SI - QUE RIS - PENINSULAM - AMENAM CIRCUMSPICE THE GIFT OF Dean M. E. Cooley Uniform with Bohn's Standard Library .
Sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. ARTES 1817 SCIENTIA VERITAS LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PLURT US UMUM TUEBOR SI - QUE RIS - PENINSULAM - AMENAM CIRCUMSPICE THE GIFT OF Dean M. E. Cooley Uniform with Bohn's Standard Library .
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... Browne's ( Sir Thomas ) Works . Edited by SIMON WILKIN . In 3 vols . Vol . 1. The Vulgar Errors . Vol . 2. Religio Medici , and Garden of Cyrus . Vol . 3. Urn - Burial , Tracts , and Corre- spondence . Chronicles of the Crusaders ...
... Browne's ( Sir Thomas ) Works . Edited by SIMON WILKIN . In 3 vols . Vol . 1. The Vulgar Errors . Vol . 2. Religio Medici , and Garden of Cyrus . Vol . 3. Urn - Burial , Tracts , and Corre- spondence . Chronicles of the Crusaders ...
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Sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. 1 tiful Illusi ; or 62 Outline F Cattermole'r Hall . 24 from de by the F China Hi OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . EDITED BY SIMON WILKIN , ATALOGUE OF.
Sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. 1 tiful Illusi ; or 62 Outline F Cattermole'r Hall . 24 from de by the F China Hi OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . EDITED BY SIMON WILKIN , ATALOGUE OF.
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... Browne was born at London , in the parish of St. Michael in Cheapside , on the 19th of October , 1605. * His * b Life of Sir Thomas Browne , prefixed to the Antiquities of Norwich . the following Essays . ] It will be recollected that ...
... Browne was born at London , in the parish of St. Michael in Cheapside , on the 19th of October , 1605. * His * b Life of Sir Thomas Browne , prefixed to the Antiquities of Norwich . the following Essays . ] It will be recollected that ...
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... Browne's Letter to Digby ( March 3 , 1642 ) , with a passage in his Epistle to the Reader , stating that it was written " about seven years ago . " But this is inconclusive ; because the true date of the letter being 1642-3 , the result ...
... Browne's Letter to Digby ( March 3 , 1642 ) , with a passage in his Epistle to the Reader , stating that it was written " about seven years ago . " But this is inconclusive ; because the true date of the letter being 1642-3 , the result ...
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