Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithSchuman, 1950 - 319 pages A study of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth century physician who was deeply concerned with his own faith at a time of religious strife and of new interest in science, and the remarkable age in which he lived. |
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... Mind and Style James Russell Lowell thought Browne " our most imag- inative mind since Shakespeare , " 18 and indeed he often approaches the level of poetry : I am sure there is a common Spirit that plays within us , yet makes no part ...
... Mind and Style James Russell Lowell thought Browne " our most imag- inative mind since Shakespeare , " 18 and indeed he often approaches the level of poetry : I am sure there is a common Spirit that plays within us , yet makes no part ...
Page 120
... mind to the works of Browne's own contemporaries , and its style is enlivened by echoes of Rabelais , of Dante , of the early Church Fathers , and of the Elizabethans . It was written at a period when English prose was rich , flexible ...
... mind to the works of Browne's own contemporaries , and its style is enlivened by echoes of Rabelais , of Dante , of the early Church Fathers , and of the Elizabethans . It was written at a period when English prose was rich , flexible ...
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... mind that will ac- cept wild stories out of Pliny yet question some accounts in the Bible . Then he bursts out : " My self could shew a Catalogue of doubts , never yet imagined nor ques- tioned . Whether Eve was framed out of the left ...
... mind that will ac- cept wild stories out of Pliny yet question some accounts in the Bible . Then he bursts out : " My self could shew a Catalogue of doubts , never yet imagined nor ques- tioned . Whether Eve was framed out of the left ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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