Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Memoirs of Sir Thomas Browne. Domestic correspondence, journals. Miscellaneous correspondenceW. Pickering, 1836 - Christian ethics |
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... Duke of De- vonshire's permission . His grace not only granted it in the most prompt and obliging manner , but had the kindness himself to shew me the picture , and to favour me with his opinion , that Walpole was decidedly wrong . The ...
... Duke of De- vonshire's permission . His grace not only granted it in the most prompt and obliging manner , but had the kindness himself to shew me the picture , and to favour me with his opinion , that Walpole was decidedly wrong . The ...
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... Duke of Cleves , written on the 29th of July , 1610 , from the camp before Juliers , to Prince Henry , relating to the progress of the siege ; in which letter is the following passage : - ' I am only unhappy in one thing , that the ...
... Duke of Cleves , written on the 29th of July , 1610 , from the camp before Juliers , to Prince Henry , relating to the progress of the siege ; in which letter is the following passage : - ' I am only unhappy in one thing , that the ...
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... Duke of Norfolk , ( grandson of the celebrated Thomas , Earl of Arundel , who made those splendid collec- tions ... Duke's Palace , as well as by the free- dom of access which young Browne obtained to them . But the public spirit of Mr ...
... Duke of Norfolk , ( grandson of the celebrated Thomas , Earl of Arundel , who made those splendid collec- tions ... Duke's Palace , as well as by the free- dom of access which young Browne obtained to them . But the public spirit of Mr ...
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... Duke of York , lodged a night at the Bishop's Palace in Nor- wich , when he landed at Yarmouth , on his return from Scotland . 4 See p . xxxviii . 5 History of Norfolk , vol . ii , 291 . though the literary celebrity of Browne must have ...
... Duke of York , lodged a night at the Bishop's Palace in Nor- wich , when he landed at Yarmouth , on his return from Scotland . 4 See p . xxxviii . 5 History of Norfolk , vol . ii , 291 . though the literary celebrity of Browne must have ...
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... Duke of York at Oxnead , with the nobility that attended them . " 1 But though Sir Thomas was willing enough to afford all the assistance in his power to those who sought it , in pursuit of astrology and alchymy , ( as on every other ...
... Duke of York at Oxnead , with the nobility that attended them . " 1 But though Sir Thomas was willing enough to afford all the assistance in his power to those who sought it , in pursuit of astrology and alchymy , ( as on every other ...
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afterwards agayne beleeve blesse BODL booke Browne's butt Captain castle church citty cosen daughter Browne dayes DEAR SONNE desire discourse diuers divers Duch Duke Edward Browne England English Fairfax farre France French garden giue glad Golden Balls handsome haue heare hee hath heere hill HONOURED FATHER hope horses howse Hungary journey king lady lately Latin letter litle London Lord loving father miles morning mother neere night noble Norfolk Norwich obedient sonne observed ouer Paris pray present probably putt RAWL received Religio Medici returne riuer Salisburie Court sayd sayth sent shee shippe side Sir John Hobart Sir Thomas Browne sister SLOAN statuas stones Tangier thereof things tooke towne uery unto Venice Vienna vnto wee saw weeke wich WILLIAM DUGDALE write writt Yarmouth
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Page lxxxv - That there were such creatures as witches, he made no doubt at all. For, first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Page xxx - Socrates warmed his doubtful spirits against that cold potion ; and Cato, before he durst give the fatal stroke, spent part of the night in reading the immortality of Plato, thereby confirming his wavering 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 further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
Page lxxxiii - ... he conceived, that these swooning fits were natural, and nothing else but that they call the mother, but only heightened to a great excess by the subtilty of the devil, cooperating with the malice of these which we term witches, at whose instance he doth these villainies.
Page lxiii - Tis my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved enigmas and riddles of the Trinity, with incarnation and resurrection. I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian, certum est quia impossibile est.
Page xliv - They that knew no more of him than by the briskness of his writings, found themselves deceived in their expectation, when they came in his company, noting the gravity and sobriety of his aspect and conversation ; so free from loquacity or much talkativeness, that he was something difficult to be engaged in any discourse ; though when he was so, it was always singular, and never trite or vulgar.
Page xxvi - a lady," says Whitefoot, " of such symmetrical proportion to her worthy husband, both in the graces of her body and mind, that they seemed to come together by a kind of natural magnetism.
Page l - His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.
Page lxxxiii - That in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons, by conveying pins into them, and crooked, as these pins were, with needles and nails. And his opinion was, That the devil, in such cases, did work upon the bodies of men and women, upon a natural foundation...
Page xlii - Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him : for the Lord hath created him.
Page xxxii - ... produce to the world an object of wonder to which nature had contributed little. To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the frogs of Homer, the gnat and the bees of Virgil, the butterfly of Spenser, the shadow of Wowerus, and the quincunx of Browne.