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Page ix
... , and not subsequently rebuilt , the parish being united to that of St. Vedast , in Foster - lane . The registers have all perished . VOL . I. b father was a merchant of an ancient family at Upton DR JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE.
... , and not subsequently rebuilt , the parish being united to that of St. Vedast , in Foster - lane . The registers have all perished . VOL . I. b father was a merchant of an ancient family at Upton DR JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE.
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sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. father was a merchant of an ancient family at Upton in Cheshire . Of the name or family of his mother , I find no account.e Of his childhood or youth , there is little known ; except that he lost his ...
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. father was a merchant of an ancient family at Upton in Cheshire . Of the name or family of his mother , I find no account.e Of his childhood or youth , there is little known ; except that he lost his ...
Page xviii
... ancient urns in Norfolk gave him occasion to write Hydriotaphia , Urnburial , or a Discourse of Sepulchral Urns , in which he treats with his usual learning on the funeral rites of the ancient nations ; exhibits their various treatment ...
... ancient urns in Norfolk gave him occasion to write Hydriotaphia , Urnburial , or a Discourse of Sepulchral Urns , in which he treats with his usual learning on the funeral rites of the ancient nations ; exhibits their various treatment ...
Page xx
... ancient conjugal or wedding number , he proceeds to a speculation which I shall give in his own words ; " the ancient numerists made out the conjugal number by two and three , the first parity and imparity , the active and passive ...
... ancient conjugal or wedding number , he proceeds to a speculation which I shall give in his own words ; " the ancient numerists made out the conjugal number by two and three , the first parity and imparity , the active and passive ...
Page xxi
... ancient and modern : " in the first of which he gives the proper interpretation of some ancient names of animals , commonly mistaken ; and in the other has some curious observations on the art of hawking , which he considers as a ...
... ancient and modern : " in the first of which he gives the proper interpretation of some ancient names of animals , commonly mistaken ; and in the other has some curious observations on the art of hawking , which he considers as a ...
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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 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 433 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.