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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... fall thereon ; of the rose of Jericho , that flowereth every year upon Christmas Eve ; of Glastonbury thorn ; that Sferra Cavallo hath a power to break or loosen iron ; that bays preserve from the mischief of lightning and thunder ...
... fall thereon ; of the rose of Jericho , that flowereth every year upon Christmas Eve ; of Glastonbury thorn ; that Sferra Cavallo hath a power to break or loosen iron ; that bays preserve from the mischief of lightning and thunder ...
Page xxxiii
... falling . There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne , more formidable than the animadversions of criticism . There are passages , from which some have taken occasion to rank him among deists , and others among ...
... falling . There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne , more formidable than the animadversions of criticism . There are passages , from which some have taken occasion to rank him among deists , and others among ...
Page xxxix
... fall and die . What furie is't to take a death part , And rather than by nature , die by art . " A worthy person . " - See her account of her father , in Preface to the Life . In his Life of Prince Henry , 8vo . Lond . 1760 , p . 199 ...
... fall and die . What furie is't to take a death part , And rather than by nature , die by art . " A worthy person . " - See her account of her father , in Preface to the Life . In his Life of Prince Henry , 8vo . Lond . 1760 , p . 199 ...
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... falling , to be meant of the poles of the world , whereupon the conversion is accomplished . In like manner , men do earnestly seek to have some Atlas , cr axis of their cogitations within themselves , which may , in some measure ...
... falling , to be meant of the poles of the world , whereupon the conversion is accomplished . In like manner , men do earnestly seek to have some Atlas , cr axis of their cogitations within themselves , which may , in some measure ...
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... falling fortunes of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy . Browne has enumerated in his preface several works simi- lar and anterior to his own.d Several others may here be " Sir C. W. being at his father's home , anno 1651 , at Knoyle ...
... falling fortunes of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy . Browne has enumerated in his preface several works simi- lar and anterior to his own.d Several others may here be " Sir C. W. being at his father's home , anno 1651 , at Knoyle ...
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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.