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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Page 21
... Spirit that plays within us , yet makes no part of us ; and that is , the Spirit of God , the fire and scintillation of that noble and mighty Essence , which is the life and radical heat of Spirits , and those essences that know not the ...
... Spirit that plays within us , yet makes no part of us ; and that is , the Spirit of God , the fire and scintillation of that noble and mighty Essence , which is the life and radical heat of Spirits , and those essences that know not the ...
Page 100
... spirits and angels ; sometimes he simply changes the subject , even in the midst of a paragraph . The topic of charity leads to a digression on the variety of human faces ; the beauty of women , to thoughts on musical harmonies . New ...
... spirits and angels ; sometimes he simply changes the subject , even in the midst of a paragraph . The topic of charity leads to a digression on the variety of human faces ; the beauty of women , to thoughts on musical harmonies . New ...
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... spirit of Protestantism blended with the Renais- sance desire to know and to exploit individual human potentiality . But science in the seventeenth century was an enterprise surpassing in scope and more varied in its sources than ...
... spirit of Protestantism blended with the Renais- sance desire to know and to exploit individual human potentiality . But science in the seventeenth century was an enterprise surpassing in scope and more varied in its sources than ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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