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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... creatures , who in tranquillity possess their constitu- tions , as having not the apprehension to deplore their own natures ; and being framed below the circumference of these hopes or cognition of better things , the wisdom of God hath ...
... creatures , who in tranquillity possess their constitu- tions , as having not the apprehension to deplore their own natures ; and being framed below the circumference of these hopes or cognition of better things , the wisdom of God hath ...
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... creatures as witches he made no doubt first , the Scriptures had affirmed so much . Secondly , the wisdon nations had provided laws against such persons , which is an arg of their confidence of such a crime . And such hath been the jud ...
... creatures as witches he made no doubt first , the Scriptures had affirmed so much . Secondly , the wisdon nations had provided laws against such persons , which is an arg of their confidence of such a crime . And such hath been the jud ...
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... creatures ( of a dark or dusky coulour , longwise shaped , and of forme of beetle or scarabee ) to rise out of the ... creatures , we perceived i I must suspect that the Knight was deceived , probably by reflec- tion , as to " these ...
... creatures ( of a dark or dusky coulour , longwise shaped , and of forme of beetle or scarabee ) to rise out of the ... creatures , we perceived i I must suspect that the Knight was deceived , probably by reflec- tion , as to " these ...
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... creatures in our tounge and all our actions , and in all the parts of our bodye , except such things as wee have borrowed from other nations . Scarce one word of ten , in our common talke , is of more than one syllable . In this very ...
... creatures in our tounge and all our actions , and in all the parts of our bodye , except such things as wee have borrowed from other nations . Scarce one word of ten , in our common talke , is of more than one syllable . In this very ...
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... creature , or hear a serpent speak , without suspi- cion of imposture . The wits of others have been so bold as to accuse her simplicity , in receiving his temptation so coldly ; and , when such specious effects of the fruit were ...
... creature , or hear a serpent speak , without suspi- cion of imposture . The wits of others have been so bold as to accuse her simplicity , in receiving his temptation so coldly ; and , when such specious effects of the fruit were ...
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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.