The Religio Medici & Other Writings of Sir Thomas BrowneJ. M. Dent, 1931 - 296 pages |
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Page 117
... dead ; It is not injustice to take that which none complains to lose , and no man is wronged where no man is possessor . What virtue yet sleeps in this terra damnata and aged cinders , were petty magick to experiment ; These crumbling ...
... dead ; It is not injustice to take that which none complains to lose , and no man is wronged where no man is possessor . What virtue yet sleeps in this terra damnata and aged cinders , were petty magick to experiment ; These crumbling ...
Page 128
... dead , whether it be handsomely said of Achilles , that living contemner of death , that he had rather be a plowman's servant , than Emperour of the dead ? How Hercules his soul is in hell , and yet in heaven , and Julius his soul in a ...
... dead , whether it be handsomely said of Achilles , that living contemner of death , that he had rather be a plowman's servant , than Emperour of the dead ? How Hercules his soul is in hell , and yet in heaven , and Julius his soul in a ...
Page 159
... dead whose Thoughts run always upon Death ; beside , to dream of the dead , so they appear not in dark Habits , and take nothing away from us , in Hippo- crates his Sense was of good signification : for we live by the dead , and every ...
... dead whose Thoughts run always upon Death ; beside , to dream of the dead , so they appear not in dark Habits , and take nothing away from us , in Hippo- crates his Sense was of good signification : for we live by the dead , and every ...
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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