Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 1

1852

Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified

From inside the book

Page
2. Religio Medici , and Garden of Cyrus . Vol . 3. Urn - Burial , Tracts , and Correspondence . Chronicles of the Crusaders . ... with the Two Continuations : comprising aAnnals of English History to the Reign of sh Edward I , Giraldus ...

Where's the rest of this book?

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Selected pages

Title Page

Table of Contents

PAGE	v

PREFACE PAGE	ix

SUPPLEMENTARY MEMOIR BY THE EDITOR	xxxvii

MRS LYTTLETONS COMMUNICATION TO BISHOP KENNET	lxviii

The Author to the Reader	1

THE FIRST Book containing the general part	7

Of the second cause of common errors the erroneous	16

Of the more immediate causes of common errors both	26

a Chap 14 That a salamander lives in the fire	291

Of the amphisbæna	294

That young vipers force their way through the bowels of their dam	297

That hares are both male and female	305

That moles are blind	312

That lampreys have many eyes	316

That snails have no eyes	318

That the chameleon lives only upon air	321

viz credulity	33

Of authors who have most promoted popular conceit	59

Of others indirectly effecting the same	72

A further illustration of the same	86

THE SECOND BOOK beginning the particular part Of popular	94

Concerning the loadstone of things particularly spoken	112

Concerning the loadstone a rejection of sundry common	133

Of bodies electrical	157

Compendiously of sundry other common tenets concern	166

Of sundry tenets concerning vegetables or plants which	192

Of some insects and the properties of several plants	210

THE THIRD BOOK the particular part continued Of popular	219

VOL 1	232

That a beaver to escape the hunter bites off his testicles	240

That a bear brings forth her cubs informous or unshaped	247

That a wolf first seeing a man begets a dumbness in him	261

That a kingfisher hanged by the bill showeth where	270

Of the phenix	276

Of frogs toads and toadstone	284

That the ostrich digesteth iron	334

Of the unicorns horn	337

That all animals of the land are in their kind in the sea	344

Concerning the common course of our diet in making choice of some animals and abstaining from eating others	346

Of the spermaceti whale	353

that storks will only live in republicks and free states of the noise of a bittern by putting the bill in a reed that whelps are blind nine days of the anti...	357

That the chicken is made out of the yolk of the egg that snakes sting of the tarantula the lamb of Tartary the swiftness of tigers with sundry queries	373

THE FOURTH Book the particular part continued Of many popu lar and received tenets concerning man Chap 1 That only man hath an erect figure	379

That the heart is on the left side	383

That pleurisies are only on the left side	385

Of the right and left hand	391

On swimming and floating	402

That men weigh heavier dead than alive and before meat than after	405

That there are several passages for meat and drink 408	408

On saluting upon sneezing Chap 10 That Jews stink	413

Of pigmies	421

Of the great climacterical year that is sixtythree	425

Of the canicular or dogdays	446

Other editions - View all

Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Ed. by S. Wilkin
Thomas Browne (sir )
No preview available - 2019

Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Ed. by S. Wilkin: Bohn's Antiq. Libr
Thomas Browne
No preview available - 2018

Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Ed. by S. Wilkin
Thomas Browne
No preview available - 2018

View all »

Common terms and phrases

according action added admit affirm ancient animals appears Aristotle assertion attraction become believe birds bodies Browne called cause CHAPTER common commonly conceive concerning confirmed considerable considered contained continued delivered determine doth doubt earth edition effect elephant error especially evidence experiment expression eyes fall fire given ground hand hath head heat illation iron Italy kind knowledge learned less letter lived loadstone magnetic means mentioned motion nature needle never notwithstanding observed opinion original pass passage perhaps plants Pliny position present probably proper reason received relations remarkable respecting salt seems sense side Sir Thomas sometimes speak spirits stone substance surely taken term thereof things tion translation tree true truth unto virtue whereby wherein whole writers

Popular passages

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...

Appears in 776 books from 1782-2008

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.

Appears in 955 books from 1750-2008

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.

Appears in 1046 books from 1794-2008

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.

Appears in 440 books from 1658-2007

Bibliographic information

QR code for Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin

Title	Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 1 Bohn's antiq. libr Bohn's standard libr Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, sir Thomas Browne
Author	sir Thomas Browne
Editor	Simon Wilkin
Published	1852
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	19 Jun 2007

Export Citation	BiBTeX EndNote RefMan

About Google Books - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Information for Publishers - Report an issue - Help - Google Home