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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... position , especially when the civil war actually broke out led him to think it most prudent to sup- press . For though a royalist , he was utterly averse to all that was arbitrary , especially in matters of religion ; and , therefore ...
... position , especially when the civil war actually broke out led him to think it most prudent to sup- press . For though a royalist , he was utterly averse to all that was arbitrary , especially in matters of religion ; and , therefore ...
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... position , I ought perhaps to point out the house in which I suppose Browne to have resided . Blomfield asserts that he lived where Dr. Howman then lived ; and that he succeeded Ald . Anguish in that house . I have ascertained , by ...
... position , I ought perhaps to point out the house in which I suppose Browne to have resided . Blomfield asserts that he lived where Dr. Howman then lived ; and that he succeeded Ald . Anguish in that house . I have ascertained , by ...
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... position before he admitted it ; if , in short , we are to allow , that Sir Thomas Browne might have been , in some degree , impelled to this un- dertaking by the suggestions of another , may we not with great probability attribute the ...
... position before he admitted it ; if , in short , we are to allow , that Sir Thomas Browne might have been , in some degree , impelled to this un- dertaking by the suggestions of another , may we not with great probability attribute the ...
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... positions the author terms " Vulgar Errors , " and professes to disprove . A notice of some Vulgar Errors , as to points of law , will be found in Barrington on the Statutes , 4to . 1775 , p . 474 . London , June 17 , 1835 . S. W. In ...
... positions the author terms " Vulgar Errors , " and professes to disprove . A notice of some Vulgar Errors , as to points of law , will be found in Barrington on the Statutes , 4to . 1775 , p . 474 . London , June 17 , 1835 . S. W. In ...
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... position , and portage of his horne , " pp . 13-26 . At p . 27 , we find the notice ( adverted to in his letter to Browne ) of the whale , beginning thus : " In June , 1626 , a whale was cast up upon my shoare or sea liberty , sometyme ...
... position , and portage of his horne , " pp . 13-26 . At p . 27 , we find the notice ( adverted to in his letter to Browne ) of the whale , beginning thus : " In June , 1626 , a whale was cast up upon my shoare or sea liberty , sometyme ...
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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.