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 ii
... contain as much water as it would without them ; of white powder that kills without report ; that coral is soft under water , but hardeneth in the air ; that porcelain lies under the earth an hundred years in preparation ; that a ...
... contain as much water as it would without them ; of white powder that kills without report ; that coral is soft under water , but hardeneth in the air ; that porcelain lies under the earth an hundred years in preparation ; that a ...
Page vii
... author refers to Avis aux RR . PP . Jésuites , du 2me Mai , l'an 1685 - this is conclu- sive against our author's claims , who died three years before . the letters indeed contained incidents which determined the year , PREFACE . vii.
... author refers to Avis aux RR . PP . Jésuites , du 2me Mai , l'an 1685 - this is conclu- sive against our author's claims , who died three years before . the letters indeed contained incidents which determined the year , PREFACE . vii.
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Sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. the letters indeed contained incidents which determined the year , and in a few the day of the week was mentioned , but in the great majority I was compelled to judge by the connection of their subjects ...
Sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. the letters indeed contained incidents which determined the year , and in a few the day of the week was mentioned , but in the great majority I was compelled to judge by the connection of their subjects ...
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... contained not a single discourse of one continued tenor , of which the latter part rose from the former , but an enumeration of many unconnected particulars , must have been the collection of years , and the effect of a design early ...
... contained not a single discourse of one continued tenor , of which the latter part rose from the former , but an enumeration of many unconnected particulars , must have been the collection of years , and the effect of a design early ...
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... contain very unimportant accounts of his passage from one place where he saw little , to another where he saw no more . Upon his return , he practised physick in London ; was made physician first to Charles II . , and afterwards in 1682 ...
... contain very unimportant accounts of his passage from one place where he saw little , to another where he saw no more . Upon his return , he practised physick in London ; was made physician first to Charles II . , and afterwards in 1682 ...
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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.
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