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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... perhaps , sometimes befallen others ; and this , I am willing to believe did really happen to Dr. Browne : but there is surely some reason to doubt the truth of the complaint so fre- quently made of surreptitious editions . A song , or ...
... perhaps , sometimes befallen others ; and this , I am willing to believe did really happen to Dr. Browne : but there is surely some reason to doubt the truth of the complaint so fre- quently made of surreptitious editions . A song , or ...
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... perhaps , there is no human being , however hid in the crowd from the observation of his fellow - mortals , who , if he has leisure and disposition to recol- lect his own thoughts and actions , will not conclude his life in some sort a ...
... perhaps , there is no human being , however hid in the crowd from the observation of his fellow - mortals , who , if he has leisure and disposition to recol- lect his own thoughts and actions , will not conclude his life in some sort a ...
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... perhaps , none of his works which better exemplifies his reading or memory . It is scarcely to be imagined , how many particulars he has amassed together , in a treatise which seems to have been occasionally written ; and for which ...
... perhaps , none of his works which better exemplifies his reading or memory . It is scarcely to be imagined , how many particulars he has amassed together , in a treatise which seems to have been occasionally written ; and for which ...
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... perhaps , we owe the с Mystically Considered . ] He withstood the Copernican hypothesis— on precisely the same ground on which some modern naturalists are disposed to regard , with apprehension and distrust , the Cuvierian System of ...
... perhaps , we owe the с Mystically Considered . ] He withstood the Copernican hypothesis— on precisely the same ground on which some modern naturalists are disposed to regard , with apprehension and distrust , the Cuvierian System of ...
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... perhaps , perished among other innumerable labours of 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 ...
... perhaps , perished among other innumerable labours of 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 ...
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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.