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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... effect it . The principal design of this letter , is to show the affinity between the modern English and the ancient Saxon ; and he observes , very rightly , that " though we have borrowed many substantives , adjectives , and some verbs ...
... effect it . The principal design of this letter , is to show the affinity between the modern English and the ancient Saxon ; and he observes , very rightly , that " though we have borrowed many substantives , adjectives , and some verbs ...
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... effect which a solitary action or incident has produced upon the character or estimation of an individual . Such an incident occurred in the history of Sir Thomas Browne in the year 1664 ; and it is not a little singular that his ...
... effect which a solitary action or incident has produced upon the character or estimation of an individual . Such an incident occurred in the history of Sir Thomas Browne in the year 1664 ; and it is not a little singular that his ...
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... effect in removing Epidemical diseases , " if any , " he would ascribe " unto the Prince of the Air . " This work he translated into Latin and published with two additional pieces , under the following title : -- Endoxa seu Questionum ...
... effect in removing Epidemical diseases , " if any , " he would ascribe " unto the Prince of the Air . " This work he translated into Latin and published with two additional pieces , under the following title : -- Endoxa seu Questionum ...
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... effect of it , before he tasted of it , we leave it unto the moralist .. Whether the whole relation be not allegorical , that is , whe- ther the temptation of the man by the woman be not the seduction of the rational and higher parts by ...
... effect of it , before he tasted of it , we leave it unto the moralist .. Whether the whole relation be not allegorical , that is , whe- ther the temptation of the man by the woman be not the seduction of the rational and higher parts by ...
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... effect from himself , he misunderstood the nature of God , and held a false apprehension of his own ; whereby vainly attempting not only insolencies , but impossibilities , he de- ceived himself as low as hell . In brief , there is ...
... effect from himself , he misunderstood the nature of God , and held a false apprehension of his own ; whereby vainly attempting not only insolencies , but impossibilities , he de- ceived himself as low as hell . In brief , there is ...
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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.