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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Page xiv
... motions of which the first cause must be super- natural : but life , thus explained , whatever it may have of miracle , will have nothing of fable ; and , therefore , the author undoubtedly had regard to something , by which he imagined ...
... motions of which the first cause must be super- natural : but life , thus explained , whatever it may have of miracle , will have nothing of fable ; and , therefore , the author undoubtedly had regard to something , by which he imagined ...
Page xvii
... motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing popular , and a This book , & c . ] See Preface to Pseudodoxia Epidemica , for a detailed account of the replies to it , as ...
... motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing popular , and a This book , & c . ] See Preface to Pseudodoxia Epidemica , for a detailed account of the replies to it , as ...
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... motions and disquisitions . Aristotle endeavours to prove that , in all motions of bodies , there is some point quiescent , and very elegantly expounds the fable of Atlas , who stood fixed , and bare up the heavens from falling , to be ...
... motions and disquisitions . Aristotle endeavours to prove that , in all motions of bodies , there is some point quiescent , and very elegantly expounds the fable of Atlas , who stood fixed , and bare up the heavens from falling , to be ...
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... motion from the epicycle of my own brain . " Again : - " where the scripture is silent , the church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment ; where both are silent , " " k & c . If we add to these passages the following ...
... motion from the epicycle of my own brain . " Again : - " where the scripture is silent , the church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment ; where both are silent , " " k & c . If we add to these passages the following ...
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... motions of its transgression And therefore so heinous conceptions have risen hereo that some have seemed more angry therewith than Go himself : being so exasperated with the offence , as to call i question their salvation , and to ...
... motions of its transgression And therefore so heinous conceptions have risen hereo that some have seemed more angry therewith than Go himself : being so exasperated with the offence , as to call i question their salvation , and to ...
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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.