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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... salt unto them , and they took delight in the dust of their endeavours . For , questionless , in knowledge there is no slender difficulty ; and truth , which wise men say doth lie in a well , is not re- coverable by exantlation . It ...
... salt unto them , and they took delight in the dust of their endeavours . For , questionless , in knowledge there is no slender difficulty ; and truth , which wise men say doth lie in a well , is not re- coverable by exantlation . It ...
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... salt is easiest dissolvable in cold water . ] Upon examining the entire chapter ( vi . ) of the Meteors here cited , I found that our author had altogether mistaken the meaning of the passage relating to the so- lubility of salts ...
... salt is easiest dissolvable in cold water . ] Upon examining the entire chapter ( vi . ) of the Meteors here cited , I found that our author had altogether mistaken the meaning of the passage relating to the so- lubility of salts ...
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... Salts of Cicero , Augustus , and the comical wits of those times : in most whereof there is not much to admire , and are , methinks , ex- ceeded , not only in the replies of wise men , but the passages of society , and urbanities of our ...
... Salts of Cicero , Augustus , and the comical wits of those times : in most whereof there is not much to admire , and are , methinks , ex- ceeded , not only in the replies of wise men , but the passages of society , and urbanities of our ...
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... salt , the waters of Jericho had not been made wholesome . I know that a decoction of wild gourd or colocynthis ( though somewhat qualified ) will not from every hand be dulcified unto CHAP . XI . ] THE GREAT PROMOTER OF FALSE OPINIONS .
... salt , the waters of Jericho had not been made wholesome . I know that a decoction of wild gourd or colocynthis ( though somewhat qualified ) will not from every hand be dulcified unto CHAP . XI . ] THE GREAT PROMOTER OF FALSE OPINIONS .
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... salt , the principle of concretion , whereby we observe that ice may be made with salt and snow by the fire - side , as is also observable from ice made by saltpetre and water , duly mixed and strongly agitated , at any time of the year ...
... salt , the principle of concretion , whereby we observe that ice may be made with salt and snow by the fire - side , as is also observable from ice made by saltpetre and water , duly mixed and strongly agitated , at any time of the year ...
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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.
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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.