The Religio Medici & Other Writings of Sir Thomas BrowneJ. M. Dent, 1931 - 296 pages |
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... never suffer a destruction . I would gladly know how Moses with an actual fire calcined or burnt the Golden Calf unto powder for that mystical metal of Gold , whose solary and celestial nature I admire , exposed unto the violence of ...
... never suffer a destruction . I would gladly know how Moses with an actual fire calcined or burnt the Golden Calf unto powder for that mystical metal of Gold , whose solary and celestial nature I admire , exposed unto the violence of ...
Page 58
... never afraid of Hell , nor never grew pale at the description of that place . I have so fixed my con- templations on Heaven , that I have almost forgot the Idea of Hell , and am afraid rather to lose the Joys of the one , than endure ...
... never afraid of Hell , nor never grew pale at the description of that place . I have so fixed my con- templations on Heaven , that I have almost forgot the Idea of Hell , and am afraid rather to lose the Joys of the one , than endure ...
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... never get out of themselves . PART THE THIRD SECT . I. ' Tis hard to find a whole Age to imitate , or what Century ... never have been or never have been known : So that noble patterns must be fetched here and there from single Persons ...
... never get out of themselves . PART THE THIRD SECT . I. ' Tis hard to find a whole Age to imitate , or what Century ... never have been or never have been known : So that noble patterns must be fetched here and there from single Persons ...
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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