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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... term , and pyramids will tumble ; but these mountainous monuments may stand , and are like to have the same period with the earth . ” In the next , he answers two geographical questions ; one con- cerning Troas , mentioned in the Acts ...
... term , and pyramids will tumble ; but these mountainous monuments may stand , and are like to have the same period with the earth . ” In the next , he answers two geographical questions ; one con- cerning Troas , mentioned in the Acts ...
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... term , I meet with the following passage in D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature , 2nd series , vol . ii . 425 : - " This faculty seems to be described by a remarkable expression employed by Thucydides in his character of Themistocles ...
... term , I meet with the following passage in D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature , 2nd series , vol . ii . 425 : - " This faculty seems to be described by a remarkable expression employed by Thucydides in his character of Themistocles ...
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... term derived from the Greek and from archery , meaning , ' to shoot at a mark . ' This eminent genius , it seems , often ' hit the white . ' Our biographer declares , that though he were no prophet , yet in that faculty , & c . " ' 0 ...
... term derived from the Greek and from archery , meaning , ' to shoot at a mark . ' This eminent genius , it seems , often ' hit the white . ' Our biographer declares , that though he were no prophet , yet in that faculty , & c . " ' 0 ...
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... terms originally appropriated to one art , and drawn by violence into the service of another . He must , however , be confessed ... term . But his innovations are sometimes pleasing , and his temerities happy he has many " verba ardentia ...
... terms originally appropriated to one art , and drawn by violence into the service of another . He must , however , be confessed ... term . But his innovations are sometimes pleasing , and his temerities happy he has many " verba ardentia ...
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... terms which would have rendered him obnoxious to both parties , if " the liberty of those times had committed them to the press . ' But let this pass as an idle speculation : it is just as useless to regret the want of these materials ...
... terms which would have rendered him obnoxious to both parties , if " the liberty of those times had committed them to the press . ' But let this pass as an idle speculation : it is just as useless to regret the want of these materials ...
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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.