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 xvii
... Notwithstanding his zeal to detect old errors , he seems not very easy to admit new positions ; for he never mentions the motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing ...
... Notwithstanding his zeal to detect old errors , he seems not very easy to admit new positions ; for he never mentions the motion of the earth but with contempt and ridicule , though the opinion , which admits it , was then growing ...
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... notwithstanding the confi- dence of our author . He has , however , sufficiently proved his position , that the English resembles its parental language , more than any modern European dialect . There remain five tracts of this ...
... notwithstanding the confi- dence of our author . He has , however , sufficiently proved his position , that the English resembles its parental language , more than any modern European dialect . There remain five tracts of this ...
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... notwithstanding the somewhat contemptuous terms in which his travels are mentioned by Dr. Johnson , who neither understood nor cared for the subjects on which Browne wrote , he acquired by his work , and has retained to the present day ...
... notwithstanding the somewhat contemptuous terms in which his travels are mentioned by Dr. Johnson , who neither understood nor cared for the subjects on which Browne wrote , he acquired by his work , and has retained to the present day ...
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... notwithstanding we have not been diverted ; nor have our solitary attempts been so discouraged , as to despair the favourable look of learning upon our single and unsup- ported endeavours . Nor have we let fall our pen upon ...
... notwithstanding we have not been diverted ; nor have our solitary attempts been so discouraged , as to despair the favourable look of learning upon our single and unsup- ported endeavours . Nor have we let fall our pen upon ...
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... notwithstanding , we reaped no advantage , it answering scarce at all the promise of the inscription . Nor perhaps ( if it were yet extant ) , should we find any further assistance from that ancient piece of Andreas , * 1 pretending the ...
... notwithstanding , we reaped no advantage , it answering scarce at all the promise of the inscription . Nor perhaps ( if it were yet extant ) , should we find any further assistance from that ancient piece of Andreas , * 1 pretending the ...
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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.