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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... 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 an epigram ...
... 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 an epigram ...
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... sometimes voluntarily subjected itself . His next attempt is " on languages , and particularly the Saxon tongue . " He discourses with great learning , and generally with great justness , of the derivation and changes of languages ; but ...
... sometimes voluntarily subjected itself . His next attempt is " on languages , and particularly the Saxon tongue . " He discourses with great learning , and generally with great justness , of the derivation and changes of languages ; but ...
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... sometimes have without the knowledge of others ; and may sometimes assume to himself , without sufficient reasons for his opinion . It is charged upon Browne by Dr. Watts , as an eminently happy in forming a prompt judgment in matters ...
... sometimes have without the knowledge of others ; and may sometimes assume to himself , without sufficient reasons for his opinion . It is charged upon Browne by Dr. Watts , as an eminently happy in forming a prompt judgment in matters ...
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... sometimes pleasing , and his temerities happy he has many " verba ardentia , " forcible expressions , which he would never have found , but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and flights which would never have been reached ...
... sometimes pleasing , and his temerities happy he has many " verba ardentia , " forcible expressions , which he would never have found , but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and flights which would never have been reached ...
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... sometimes eagerly dispute , and yet not differ much from one another : the rigorous persecutors of error , should , therefore , enlighten their zeal with knowledge , and temper their orthodoxy with charity ; that charity , without which ...
... sometimes eagerly dispute , and yet not differ much from one another : the rigorous persecutors of error , should , therefore , enlighten their zeal with knowledge , and temper their orthodoxy with charity ; that charity , without which ...
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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.
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