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" Now nature is not at variance with art nor art with nature, they being both the servants of his providence ; art is the perfection of nature ; were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos ; nature hath made one world and art another.... "
Religio medici. To which is added, sir Digby's Observations. Also critical notes - Page 34
by sir Thomas Browne - 1754
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Sir Thomas Browne

Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 238 pages
...Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a Chaos. Nature hath made one world and Art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for Nature is the Art of God." "We must remind ourselves again of Browne's phrase, that every man's own reason is his best CEdipus....
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The Shakespeare Symphony: An Introduction to the Ethics of the Elizabethan Drama

Harold Bayley - 1906 - 418 pages
...nor art with nature they being both servants of His Providence. Art is the perfection of nature.... In brief all things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. SIR T. BROWNE (Religio tMedici) 1637-1643. Art itself is nature. SHAKESPEARE (Winter's Tale iv. 4.)...
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National Life and Character in the Mirror of Early English Literature

Edmund Dale - 1907 - 362 pages
...course, the Wisdom of God hath ordained the actions of His creatures, according to their several kinds.. ..In brief, all things are artificial; for Nature is the Art of God." SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici, 1635 AD INTRODUCTION. THE purpose of this study is to examine and...
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Browne's Religio Medici and Digby's Observations

Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 258 pages
...all things are artificiall, for nature is the Art of God. This is the ordinary and open way&ff. 17. of his providence, which art and induftry have in a good part difcovered, whofe effects wee may foretell without an Oracle; To forefhew thefe is not Prophefie, but Prognoftication. There...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...the World now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a Chaos. Nature hath made one World, and Art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for Nature is the Art of GOD. XVII. This is the ordinary and open way of His Providence, which Art and Industry have in a good part...
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Camera Craft, Volume 17

1910 - 628 pages
...nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. — Sir T. Brown. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth...
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The Foundation Library for Young People: A Comprehensive and Systematic ...

George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 658 pages
...the world now, as it was the sixth day, there would yet be chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for Nature is the art of God." — Sir Thomas Browne. "It is the glory and the good of Art that Art remains the one way possible of...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne v. 1, Volume 1

Sir Thomas Browne - 1912 - 420 pages
...the World now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a Chaos : Nature hath made one World, and Art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for Nature is the Art of God. THIS is the ordinary and open way of his SECT. providence, which Art and Industry have 17 in a good...
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Essays in Biography

Charles Whibley - 1913 - 326 pages
...the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God.' The last phrase Hobbes transferred to the Leviathan. With Browne it is a recurrent theme. ' Nature...
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English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restoration

Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 pages
...could raise a belief, and expect apparent impossibilities. (From Religio A PROVIDENCE IN FORTUNE . THIS is the ordinary and open way of His providence, which art and industry have in a good part discovered ; whose effects we may foretell without an oracle. To foreshew...
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