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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Page xi
... true date of the letter being 1642-3 , the result would be 1636 ; which is contradicted by another passage in Religio Medici , in which Browne says he was not thirty years old , whereas in 1636 he was older . I think it , however , very ...
... true date of the letter being 1642-3 , the result would be 1636 ; which is contradicted by another passage in Religio Medici , in which Browne says he was not thirty years old , whereas in 1636 he was older . I think it , however , very ...
Page xii
... true , or to correct what is found faulty or offensive , and charge the errors on the tran- scriber's depravations . This is a stratagem , by which an author panting for fame , and yet afraid of seeming to challenge it , may at once ...
... true , or to correct what is found faulty or offensive , and charge the errors on the tran- scriber's depravations . This is a stratagem , by which an author panting for fame , and yet afraid of seeming to challenge it , may at once ...
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... true name is Levinus Nicolaus Moltkenias . He signs his preface in initials thus , L. N. M. E. M. which are thus explained by a French critic : - " Ces lettres initiales designent Levinus Nicolaus Moltkius , dont on a encore Conclave ...
... true name is Levinus Nicolaus Moltkenias . He signs his preface in initials thus , L. N. M. E. M. which are thus explained by a French critic : - " Ces lettres initiales designent Levinus Nicolaus Moltkius , dont on a encore Conclave ...
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... to be deplored , if we may credit the account given in Le Neve's pedigree of the family . But that document exhibits so many inaccuracies , that we may , in charity , hope the story is not true . lxvi SUPPLEMENTARY MEMOIR .
... to be deplored , if we may credit the account given in Le Neve's pedigree of the family . But that document exhibits so many inaccuracies , that we may , in charity , hope the story is not true . lxvi SUPPLEMENTARY MEMOIR .
Page lxxiii
... true key to explain his belief in witchcraft , and Satanic influence , as well his partiality for the Ptolemaic system of the universe . He regarded these all as being to a certain extent , subjects of revelation ; and thereforem to be ...
... true key to explain his belief in witchcraft , and Satanic influence , as well his partiality for the Ptolemaic system of the universe . He regarded these all as being to a certain extent , subjects of revelation ; and thereforem to be ...
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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.
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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.