The Religio Medici & Other Writings of Sir Thomas BrowneJ. M. Dent, 1931 - 296 pages |
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Page 133
... hope to live within two Methuselas of Hector.2 And therefore restlesse inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations , seems a vanity almost out of date , and superannuated peece of folly . We cannot hope to ...
... hope to live within two Methuselas of Hector.2 And therefore restlesse inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations , seems a vanity almost out of date , and superannuated peece of folly . We cannot hope to ...
Page 136
... hope no long duration : Diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation . Darknesse and light divide the course of time , and oblivion shares with memory , a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities ...
... hope no long duration : Diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation . Darknesse and light divide the course of time , and oblivion shares with memory , a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities ...
Page 255
... hope to behold this Exantlation of Truth , or that obscured Virgin half out of the Pit . Which might make some content with a commutation of the time of their lives , and to commend the fancy of the Pythagorean metempsychosis ; whereby ...
... hope to behold this Exantlation of Truth , or that obscured Virgin half out of the Pit . Which might make some content with a commutation of the time of their lives , and to commend the fancy of the Pythagorean metempsychosis ; whereby ...
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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