The Religio Medici & Other Writings of Sir Thomas BrowneJ. M. Dent, 1931 - 296 pages |
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... afford but a bad conjecture , and have this disadvantage of grave enterrments , that they leave us ignorant of most personal discoveries . For since bones afford not only rectitude and stability , but figure unto the body ; it is 1 Of ...
... afford but a bad conjecture , and have this disadvantage of grave enterrments , that they leave us ignorant of most personal discoveries . For since bones afford not only rectitude and stability , but figure unto the body ; it is 1 Of ...
Page 229
... afford much comfort in sleep ; wherein the dulnesse of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours ; and though in the Bed of Cleopatra , can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a Rose . Night which Pagan Theology could ...
... afford much comfort in sleep ; wherein the dulnesse of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours ; and though in the Bed of Cleopatra , can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a Rose . Night which Pagan Theology could ...
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... afford Antipoysons : nothing is totally , or altogether uselessly bad . Notable Virtues are sometimes dashed with notorious Vices , and in some vicious tempers have been found illustrious Acts of Virtue ; which makes such observable ...
... afford Antipoysons : nothing is totally , or altogether uselessly bad . Notable Virtues are sometimes dashed with notorious Vices , and in some vicious tempers have been found illustrious Acts of Virtue ; which makes such observable ...
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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