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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... Latin orators . Along with this went p ing Latin letters , using Cicero , Seneca , a models . The student cultivated the use of of speech and usually kept a commonplace epigrams . By the time Browne was ready ford he was doubtless ...
... Latin orators . Along with this went p ing Latin letters , using Cicero , Seneca , a models . The student cultivated the use of of speech and usually kept a commonplace epigrams . By the time Browne was ready ford he was doubtless ...
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... Latin . John Milton's job with the Commonwealth gov- ernment was that of secretary to handle Latin corre- spondence . Even in the late seventeenth century it was still essential for a young man studying abroad " that he hath the Latin ...
... Latin . John Milton's job with the Commonwealth gov- ernment was that of secretary to handle Latin corre- spondence . Even in the late seventeenth century it was still essential for a young man studying abroad " that he hath the Latin ...
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... Latin , lector . He stood on a podium above and well separated from the cadaver , and read from Galen or Aristotle , leaving the work of incision to a barber - sur- geon , whose profession was still separate from the physi- cians . If ...
... Latin , lector . He stood on a podium above and well separated from the cadaver , and read from Galen or Aristotle , leaving the work of incision to a barber - sur- geon , whose profession was still separate from the physi- cians . If ...
Contents
From Cheapside to Winchester | 2 |
Residence in Yorkshire | 90 |
Civil StrifeBrownes Second | 125 |
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