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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... eyes . Chap . 20. That snails have no eyes . Chap . 21. That the chameleon lives only upon air Chap . 22. That the ostrich digesteth iron . Chap . 23. Of the unicorn's horn . PAGE 276 284 291 294 297 · 305 312 316 318 321 334 337 Chap ...
... eyes . Chap . 20. That snails have no eyes . Chap . 21. That the chameleon lives only upon air Chap . 22. That the ostrich digesteth iron . Chap . 23. Of the unicorn's horn . PAGE 276 284 291 294 297 · 305 312 316 318 321 334 337 Chap ...
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... eyes by standing in comparison with his subject , to which he can hope to add nothing from his imagina- tion : but it is a perpetual triumph of fancy to expand a scanty theme , to raise glittering ideas from obscure properties , and to ...
... eyes by standing in comparison with his subject , to which he can hope to add nothing from his imagina- tion : but it is a perpetual triumph of fancy to expand a scanty theme , to raise glittering ideas from obscure properties , and to ...
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... eyes of Charles . In perilous times , Dr. Browne had steadily adhered to the royal cause . He was one of the 432 principal citizens who , in 1643 , refused to subscribe towards a fund for regaining the town of Newcastle . Charles was ...
... eyes of Charles . In perilous times , Dr. Browne had steadily adhered to the royal cause . He was one of the 432 principal citizens who , in 1643 , refused to subscribe towards a fund for regaining the town of Newcastle . Charles was ...
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... eyes and ears were the sad witnesses under the authority and presence of Linsey , Tofts the sheriffe , and Greenwood ; Lord , what work was here , what clattering of glasses , what beating down of walls , what tearing up of monuments ...
... eyes and ears were the sad witnesses under the authority and presence of Linsey , Tofts the sheriffe , and Greenwood ; Lord , what work was here , what clattering of glasses , what beating down of walls , what tearing up of monuments ...
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... eyes shall be opened hereafter , they are at present quick enough to discover thy deceit ; and we desire them no opener to behold our own shame . If to know good and evil be our advantage , although we have free will unto both , we ...
... eyes shall be opened hereafter , they are at present quick enough to discover thy deceit ; and we desire them no opener to behold our own shame . If to know good and evil be our advantage , although we have free will unto both , we ...
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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.