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... less here , because explanatory prefaces accompany the principal of them . Religio Medici , Pseudodoxia Epidemica , and the volume containing Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus , were published by himself ; after his decease , and in ...
... less here , because explanatory prefaces accompany the principal of them . Religio Medici , Pseudodoxia Epidemica , and the volume containing Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus , were published by himself ; after his decease , and in ...
Page vi
... less copiously in the prin- cipal biographical collections foreign as well as English : especi- ally the Biographia Britannica , Aikin , Chalmers , Biographie Universelle , Bayle , Jöcher , Niceron , 3 & c . I have reprinted Dr. 2 He ...
... less copiously in the prin- cipal biographical collections foreign as well as English : especi- ally the Biographia Britannica , Aikin , Chalmers , Biographie Universelle , Bayle , Jöcher , Niceron , 3 & c . I have reprinted Dr. 2 He ...
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... less than infinite duration . 0 66 * Digby's Letter to Browne . nor was this invective , & c . ] Yet the style of this admonition would justify our ascribing it to Browne , quite as much as that of the adver- tisement relating to ...
... less than infinite duration . 0 66 * Digby's Letter to Browne . nor was this invective , & c . ] Yet the style of this admonition would justify our ascribing it to Browne , quite as much as that of the adver- tisement relating to ...
Page xvii
... less operose , if he had thrust his needles through corks , and then set them afloat in two basons of water . Notwithstanding his zeal to detect old errors , he seems not very easy to admit new positions ; for he never mentions the ...
... less operose , if he had thrust his needles through corks , and then set them afloat in two basons of water . Notwithstanding his zeal to detect old errors , he seems not very easy to admit new positions ; for he never mentions the ...
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... less , than other men , upon the same account of his knowing more than others ; so that though he met with many rarities , he admired them not so much as others do . " He was never seen to be transported with mirth , or dejected with ...
... less , than other men , upon the same account of his knowing more than others ; so that though he met with many rarities , he admired them not so much as others do . " He was never seen to be transported with mirth , or dejected with ...
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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.