Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithSchuman, 1950 - 319 pages A study of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth century physician who was deeply concerned with his own faith at a time of religious strife and of new interest in science, and the remarkable age in which he lived. |
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Page 107
... Digby immediat to the bookstalls to try to find a copy . boy returned with the book , Digby wa into bed , " but found himself so taken natured creature " ( Religio Medici ) through before falling asleep . Like Browne's composing verses ...
... Digby immediat to the bookstalls to try to find a copy . boy returned with the book , Digby wa into bed , " but found himself so taken natured creature " ( Religio Medici ) through before falling asleep . Like Browne's composing verses ...
Page 108
... Digby in his nightgown , propped up on abundant pillows , devouring the plain little unsigned octavo volume with rapt attention . Sir Kenelm himself was a picturesque figure . Son of the young Everard Digby , who had been hanged for ...
... Digby in his nightgown , propped up on abundant pillows , devouring the plain little unsigned octavo volume with rapt attention . Sir Kenelm himself was a picturesque figure . Son of the young Everard Digby , who had been hanged for ...
Page 262
... Digby , whose " sympathitic powder " now provokes a smile : even during his lifetime he was called " the very Pliny of our age for lying , " and by the usually tolerant John Evelyn he was termed " an arrant mountebank . " * The learned ...
... Digby , whose " sympathitic powder " now provokes a smile : even during his lifetime he was called " the very Pliny of our age for lying , " and by the usually tolerant John Evelyn he was termed " an arrant mountebank . " * The learned ...
Contents
From Cheapside to Winchester | 2 |
Residence in Yorkshire | 90 |
Civil StrifeBrownes Second | 125 |
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