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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... Pliny . Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies , their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incan- tations . For , according unto the tradition of magicians , the tutelary spirits will not ...
... Pliny . Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies , their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incan- tations . For , according unto the tradition of magicians , the tutelary spirits will not ...
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... Pliny , Ælian , Athe- næus , and many more . Not a few transcriptively , sub- scribing their names unto other men's endeavours , and merely transcribing almost all they have written . Arabs transcribing the Greeks , the Greeks and ...
... Pliny , Ælian , Athe- næus , and many more . Not a few transcriptively , sub- scribing their names unto other men's endeavours , and merely transcribing almost all they have written . Arabs transcribing the Greeks , the Greeks and ...
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... Pliny . Thus have Lucian and Apuleius served Lucius Pratensis ; men both living in the same time , and both transcribing the same author , in those famous books , entituled Lucius by the one , and Aureus Asinus by the other . In the ...
... Pliny . Thus have Lucian and Apuleius served Lucius Pratensis ; men both living in the same time , and both transcribing the same author , in those famous books , entituled Lucius by the one , and Aureus Asinus by the other . In the ...
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... Pliny , who seems to borrow many authors out of Dioscorides , hath taken no notice of him . I wish men were not still content to plume themselves with others ' feathers . Fear of discovery , not single ingenuity , affords quotations ...
... Pliny , who seems to borrow many authors out of Dioscorides , hath taken no notice of him . I wish men were not still content to plume themselves with others ' feathers . Fear of discovery , not single ingenuity , affords quotations ...
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... Pliny . " ( Medical Jurisprudence , vol . i . p . 247 . ) — By the law of Scotland , as stated by Paris and Fon- blanque , a child born ten months after the death of the father is con- sidered as legitimate ; and the civil code of ...
... Pliny . " ( Medical Jurisprudence , vol . i . p . 247 . ) — By the law of Scotland , as stated by Paris and Fon- blanque , a child born ten months after the death of the father is con- sidered as legitimate ; and the civil code of ...
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Page 348 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 31 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 21 - But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Page 107 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
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Page 280 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page xix - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.