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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Page xvii
... admit new positions ; for he never mentions the motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing popular , and a This book , & c . ] See Preface to Pseudodoxia Epidemica , for ...
... admit new positions ; for he never mentions the motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing popular , and a This book , & c . ] See Preface to Pseudodoxia Epidemica , for ...
Page xxii
... admitting ( says he ) nei- ther ornament , epitaph , nor inscription , may , if earthquakes spare them , outlast other monuments : obelisks have their term , and pyramids will tumble ; but these mountainous monuments may stand , and are ...
... admitting ( says he ) nei- ther ornament , epitaph , nor inscription , may , if earthquakes spare them , outlast other monuments : obelisks have their term , and pyramids will tumble ; but these mountainous monuments may stand , and are ...
Page lxxii
... admit as truths what may be either false , or only a proper subject for doubts . He warns us in his doctrine of the idols of the under- standing , that , from our love of truth , we are anxious to possess it , and too ready to imagine ...
... admit as truths what may be either false , or only a proper subject for doubts . He warns us in his doctrine of the idols of the under- standing , that , from our love of truth , we are anxious to possess it , and too ready to imagine ...
Page lxxiii
... admit that he was peculiarly qualified for the task . It was in his very nature to inquire ( as I have remarked ) , and he was not content to receive any thing , without scrutiny , -except in matters of faith . The exception may be ...
... admit that he was peculiarly qualified for the task . It was in his very nature to inquire ( as I have remarked ) , and he was not content to receive any thing , without scrutiny , -except in matters of faith . The exception may be ...
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... admit the impossible society of error . CHAPTER II . A further Illustration of the same . BEING thus deluded before the fall , it is no wonder if their conceptions were deceitful , and could scarce speak without an error after . For ...
... admit the impossible society of error . CHAPTER II . A further Illustration of the same . BEING thus deluded before the fall , it is no wonder if their conceptions were deceitful , and could scarce speak without an error after . For ...
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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.
Page xxxviii - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
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.