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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... delivered rhetorically , many expressions merely tropi cal , and therefore many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense , and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason . " The first glance upon his book will indeed discover ...
... delivered rhetorically , many expressions merely tropi cal , and therefore many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense , and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason . " The first glance upon his book will indeed discover ...
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... delivered ) will friendly accept , if not countenance , our endeavours . Nor can we conceive it may be unwelcome unto those honoured worthies who endeavour the advance- ment of learning ; as being likely to find a clearer progres- sion ...
... delivered ) will friendly accept , if not countenance , our endeavours . Nor can we conceive it may be unwelcome unto those honoured worthies who endeavour the advance- ment of learning ; as being likely to find a clearer progres- sion ...
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... delivered in the text ; that when the woman saw " that the tree was good for food , " and " that it was pleasant unto the eye , " and a tree to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof and did eat . " Now hereby it ...
... delivered in the text ; that when the woman saw " that the tree was good for food , " and " that it was pleasant unto the eye , " and a tree to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof and did eat . " Now hereby it ...
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... delivered the fruit unto Adam ; who after th taste thereof , perceiving himself still to live , might yet re main in doubt , whether he had incurred death ; which per haps he did not indubitably believe , until he was afte convicted in ...
... delivered the fruit unto Adam ; who after th taste thereof , perceiving himself still to live , might yet re main in doubt , whether he had incurred death ; which per haps he did not indubitably believe , until he was afte convicted in ...
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... delivered by others . This is a weakness in the understanding , without examination assenting unto things which , from their natures and causes , do carry no persuasion ; whereby men often swallow falsities for truths , dubiosities for ...
... delivered by others . This is a weakness in the understanding , without examination assenting unto things which , from their natures and causes , do carry no persuasion ; whereby men often swallow falsities for truths , dubiosities 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.