The Religio Medici & Other Writings of Sir Thomas BrowneJ. M. Dent, 1931 - 296 pages |
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... thought it only a pleasant trope of Rhetorick , till my neer judgement and second thoughts told me there was a real truth therein . For first we are a rude mass , and in the rank of creatures which onely are , and have a dull kind of ...
... thought it only a pleasant trope of Rhetorick , till my neer judgement and second thoughts told me there was a real truth therein . For first we are a rude mass , and in the rank of creatures which onely are , and have a dull kind of ...
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... thought of the next World ; who , in a nobler ambition , should desire to live in his substance in Heaven , rather than his name and shadow in the earth . And therefore at my death I mean to take a total adieu of the World , not caring ...
... thought of the next World ; who , in a nobler ambition , should desire to live in his substance in Heaven , rather than his name and shadow in the earth . And therefore at my death I mean to take a total adieu of the World , not caring ...
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... thought in one way , as Nero's was in another ; for by a word we wound a thousand , and at one blow assassine the honour of a Nation . It is as compleat a piece of madness to miscal and rave against the times , or think to recal men to ...
... thought in one way , as Nero's was in another ; for by a word we wound a thousand , and at one blow assassine the honour of a Nation . It is as compleat a piece of madness to miscal and rave against the times , or think to recal men to ...
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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