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 xii
... truth of the complaint so fre- quently made of surreptitious editions . A song , or an epigram , may be easily printed without the author's knowledge ; because it may be learned when it is repeated , or may be written out with very ...
... truth of the complaint so fre- quently made of surreptitious editions . A song , or an epigram , may be easily printed without the author's knowledge ; because it may be learned when it is repeated , or may be written out with very ...
Page xvii
... truth . Having heard a flying rumour of sympathetick needles , by which , suspended over a circular alphabet , distant friends or lovers might correspond , he procured two such alphabets to be made , touched his needles with the same ...
... truth . Having heard a flying rumour of sympathetick needles , by which , suspended over a circular alphabet , distant friends or lovers might correspond , he procured two such alphabets to be made , touched his needles with the same ...
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... truth , will have few novelties to relate ; or that Dr. Browne was , by the train of his studies , led to enquire most after those things , by which the greatest part of mankind is little affected ; a great part of his book seems to ...
... truth , will have few novelties to relate ; or that Dr. Browne was , by the train of his studies , led to enquire most after those things , by which the greatest part of mankind is little affected ; a great part of his book seems to ...
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... truth without the labour or hazard of contest . There is , perhaps , no better method of encountering these troublesome irruptions of scepticism , with which inquisitive minds are frequently harassed , than that which Browne declares ...
... truth without the labour or hazard of contest . There is , perhaps , no better method of encountering these troublesome irruptions of scepticism , with which inquisitive minds are frequently harassed , than that which Browne declares ...
Page xxxiii
... adopt their opinions . In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines , they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding ; and industriously labour to win a SIR THOMAS BROWNE . xxxiii .
... adopt their opinions . In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines , they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding ; and industriously labour to win a SIR THOMAS BROWNE . xxxiii .
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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.