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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... learned when it is repeated , or may be written out with very little trouble : but a long treatise , however elegant , is not often copied by mere zeal or curiosity , but may be worn out in passing from hand to hand , before it is ...
... learned when it is repeated , or may be written out with very little trouble : but a long treatise , however elegant , is not often copied by mere zeal or curiosity , but may be worn out in passing from hand to hand , before it is ...
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... learned men , or have been burnt in a scarcity of fuel like the papers of Pereskius . The first of these posthumous treatises contains " observations upon several plants mentioned in Scripture . " These remarks , though they do not ...
... learned men , or have been burnt in a scarcity of fuel like the papers of Pereskius . The first of these posthumous treatises contains " observations upon several plants mentioned in Scripture . " These remarks , though they do not ...
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... learned man , there remains little to be added , but that in 1665 he was chosen honorary fellow of the college of physicians , as a man , " Virtute et literis ornatissimus , -eminently embellished with literature and virtue : " and , in ...
... learned man , there remains little to be added , but that in 1665 he was chosen honorary fellow of the college of physicians , as a man , " Virtute et literis ornatissimus , -eminently embellished with literature and virtue : " and , in ...
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... LEARNED BOOKS , WHO PRACTIC'D PHYSICK IN THIS CITY 46 YEARS , AND DIED OCTOBER 19 , 1682 , IN THE 77 YEAR OF HIS AGE . IN MEMORY OF WHOM DAME DOROTHY BROWNE , WHO HAD BEEN HIS AFFECTIONATE WIFE 41 YEARS , CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ...
... LEARNED BOOKS , WHO PRACTIC'D PHYSICK IN THIS CITY 46 YEARS , AND DIED OCTOBER 19 , 1682 , IN THE 77 YEAR OF HIS AGE . IN MEMORY OF WHOM DAME DOROTHY BROWNE , WHO HAD BEEN HIS AFFECTIONATE WIFE 41 YEARS , CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ...
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... learned as any of the college , and as well bred as any of the court . " Of every great and eminent character , part breaks forth into public view , and part lies hid in domestic privacy . Those quali- ties which have been exerted in ...
... learned as any of the college , and as well bred as any of the court . " Of every great and eminent character , part breaks forth into public view , and part lies hid in domestic privacy . Those quali- ties which have been exerted in ...
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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.