The Religio Medici & Other Writings of Sir Thomas BrowneJ. M. Dent, 1931 - 296 pages |
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... Vices . And surely there goes a great deal of Conscience to the compiling of an History : there is no reproach to ... Vice , destroy also Virtue ; for contraries , though they destroy one another , are yet the life of one another . Thus ...
... Vices . And surely there goes a great deal of Conscience to the compiling of an History : there is no reproach to ... Vice , destroy also Virtue ; for contraries , though they destroy one another , are yet the life of one another . Thus ...
Page 77
... vices . Now the dulness of my reason , and the vulgarity of my disposi- tion , never prompted my invention , nor solicited my affection unto any of these ; yet even those common and quotidian infirmities that so necessarily attend me ...
... vices . Now the dulness of my reason , and the vulgarity of my disposi- tion , never prompted my invention , nor solicited my affection unto any of these ; yet even those common and quotidian infirmities that so necessarily attend me ...
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... Vice unto Nature , and resist some by the Antidote of thy Temper . As charity covers , so Modesty preventeth a multitude of sins ; withholding from noon day Vices and brazen - brow'd Iniquities , from sinning on the house - top , and ...
... Vice unto Nature , and resist some by the Antidote of thy Temper . As charity covers , so Modesty preventeth a multitude of sins ; withholding from noon day Vices and brazen - brow'd Iniquities , from sinning on the house - top , and ...
Contents
RELIGIO MEDICI | 3 |
LETTER TO A FRIEND UPON OCCASION OF THE DEATH | 149 |
THE GARDEN OF CYRUS OR THE QUINCUNCIALL LOZENGE | 167 |
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