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Page xii
... surely some reason to doubt the 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 ...
... surely some reason to doubt the 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 ...
Page xiv
... surely , a man may visit France and Italy , reside at Montpellier and Padua , and at last take his degree at Leyden , without any thing miraculous . What it was , that would , if it was related , sound so poetical and fabulous , we are ...
... surely , a man may visit France and Italy , reside at Montpellier and Padua , and at last take his degree at Leyden , without any thing miraculous . What it was , that would , if it was related , sound so poetical and fabulous , we are ...
Page xvii
... us . b truth . ] His willingness to take pains to disprove even the most absurd fables , is well evinced in his chapter On the Three Kings of Collein . was , surely , plausible , even before it was SIR THOMAS BROWNE . xvii.
... us . b truth . ] His willingness to take pains to disprove even the most absurd fables , is well evinced in his chapter On the Three Kings of Collein . was , surely , plausible , even before it was SIR THOMAS BROWNE . xvii.
Page xviii
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. was , surely , plausible , even before it was confirmed by later observations . The reputation of Browne encouraged some low writer to publish , under his name , a book called " Nature's Cabinet Unlocked ...
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. was , surely , plausible , even before it was confirmed by later observations . The reputation of Browne encouraged some low writer to publish , under his name , a book called " Nature's Cabinet Unlocked ...
Page xxxv
... surely be charged with a defect of faith , who “ believes that our Saviour was dead , and buried , and rose again , and desires to see him in his glory : " and who affirms , that " this is not much to believe ; " that " we have reason ...
... surely be charged with a defect of faith , who “ believes that our Saviour was dead , and buried , and rose again , and desires to see him in his glory : " and who affirms , that " this is not much to believe ; " that " we have reason ...
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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.