The Religio Medici & Other Writings of Sir Thomas BrowneJ. M. Dent, 1931 - 296 pages |
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... eyes shall easily out - see the Sun , and behold without a perspective the extreamest distances : for if there shall be in our glorified eyes , the faculty of sight and reception of objects , I could think the visible species there to ...
... eyes shall easily out - see the Sun , and behold without a perspective the extreamest distances : for if there shall be in our glorified eyes , the faculty of sight and reception of objects , I could think the visible species there to ...
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... eyes as parts which first die or first discover the sad effects of death . But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends , or revoke them unto life again , was a vanity of affection ; as not presumably ignorant ...
... eyes as parts which first die or first discover the sad effects of death . But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends , or revoke them unto life again , was a vanity of affection ; as not presumably ignorant ...
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... Eye looks upon high and low differently from that of Man . They who seem to stand upon Olympus , and high mounted unto our eyes , may be but in the Valleys , and low Ground unto his ; for he looks upon those as highest who nearest ...
... Eye looks upon high and low differently from that of Man . They who seem to stand upon Olympus , and high mounted unto our eyes , may be but in the Valleys , and low Ground unto his ; for he looks upon those as highest who nearest ...
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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