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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... 94 Chap . 2. Concerning the loadstone ; of things particularly spoken thereof , evidently or probably true VOL . I. α 112 51 59 75 · • · • 86 888582 28 26 33 72 · " Chap . 3. Concerning the loadstone ; a rejection Man In E. Con Co.
... 94 Chap . 2. Concerning the loadstone ; of things particularly spoken thereof , evidently or probably true VOL . I. α 112 51 59 75 · • · • 86 888582 28 26 33 72 · " Chap . 3. Concerning the loadstone ; a rejection Man In E. Con Co.
Page vii
... things , there is something to be wished which we must wish in vain . ' But no part of the work has cost me more perplexity and labour than the selection and arrangement of the CORRESPONDENCE . The family letters , extending through a ...
... things , there is something to be wished which we must wish in vain . ' But no part of the work has cost me more perplexity and labour than the selection and arrangement of the CORRESPONDENCE . The family letters , extending through a ...
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... things appear of so much importance as to deserve the notice of the publick . About the year 1634 , § he is supposed to have returned to London ; and the next year to have written his celebrated treatise , called Religio Medici , m ...
... things appear of so much importance as to deserve the notice of the publick . About the year 1634 , § he is supposed to have returned to London ; and the next year to have written his celebrated treatise , called Religio Medici , m ...
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... things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense , and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason . " The first ... thing can be " almost eternal , " or that any time beginning and ending is not infinitely less than infinite duration ...
... things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense , and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason . " The first ... thing can be " almost eternal , " or that any time beginning and ending is not infinitely less than infinite duration ...
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... things , there is something to be wished , which we must wish in vain . This book , like his former , was received with great applause , was answered by Alexander Ross , and translated into Dutch and German , and not many years ago into ...
... things , there is something to be wished , which we must wish in vain . This book , like his former , was received with great applause , was answered by Alexander Ross , and translated into Dutch and German , and not many years ago into ...
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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.