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" 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. "
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas ... - Page xix
by Sir Thomas Browne - 1852
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

Robert Southey - 1849 - 610 pages
...487, ed. Wilhins. [Better Prolpects.^ " 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...is no further state to come unto which this seems professional, ami otherwise made in vain ; without this accomplishment the natural expectation and...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

Robert Southey - 1849 - 656 pages
...ed. Wilkins. L .. [Better Prospects.'] " IT Í3 the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that...is no further state to come unto which this seems |>rogress!onnl, and otherwise made in vain ; without this accomplishment the natural expectation and...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 6

1849 - 848 pages
...the sententious doctor of physic, Sir Thomas, " that melancholy can throw at 9 man, to tell him that he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, until which this seems professional, and otherwise made in vain." Hence the vast majority of men have...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 25

1851 - 608 pages
...hand unto the animosity of he attempt. It is the heaviest stone that Melaniholy can throw at a man. to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that...seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain." The Christian Morals (posthumous, 1716), though searched out by an archbishop and published by an archdeacon,...
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Angelology: Remarks & Reflections Touching the Agency & Ministration of Holy ...

George Clayton (jr.) - 1851 - 270 pages
...melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; and there is no future state to come ; unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain. But man is a noble animal, — splendid in ashes, pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and...
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Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 3

sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 1046 pages
...hand unto the animosity of that attempt. 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...unsatisfied considerators would quarrel the justice of their constitutions, and rest content that Adam had fallen lower; whereby, by knowing no other original,...
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The Catacombs of Rome

Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 224 pages
...[Not dead, but sleeping.] PRUDENTIUS. " 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...seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain." SIB THOMAS BROWNE — ffydriotaphia. " Procul ! Oh ! procul, este profani." [Hence ! Oh ! far hence,...
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Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 468 pages
...hand unto the animosity of that attempt. 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 farther state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain. Without this...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 22

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...the heaviest stone," says Sir Thomas Browne, " that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him that he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progression al, and otherwise made in vain." And we might add, it is a heavy stone to be thrown at...
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Christian Morals

Sir Thomas Browne - 1863 - 226 pages
...unto the animofity of that attempt. " It is the heavieft ftone that melancholy " can throw at man, to tell him he is at " the end of his nature ; or that there is no " further ftate to come, unto which this " feems progreffional, and otherwife made " in vain : without this accomplimment,...
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