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 184
... ancient world linger at a dying fire : When the Funerall pyre was out , and the last val- ediction over , men took a lasting adieu of their interred Friends , little expecting the curiosity of future ages should comment upon their ashes ...
... ancient world linger at a dying fire : When the Funerall pyre was out , and the last val- ediction over , men took a lasting adieu of their interred Friends , little expecting the curiosity of future ages should comment upon their ashes ...
Page 185
... ancients and was temperamentally preoccupied with the beginnings of things : Adam and Eve , the Flood , the early civilization of the Nile with its Sphinxes and Pyramids . His strong sense of continuity foreshortened his perspective ...
... ancients and was temperamentally preoccupied with the beginnings of things : Adam and Eve , the Flood , the early civilization of the Nile with its Sphinxes and Pyramids . His strong sense of continuity foreshortened his perspective ...
Page 299
... Ancient Funeral Monuments , I in Cat . ) , J. Kirchmann , De Funeribus Roma ( Cat . , p . 13 , no . 17 ) . 4. Works , IV , 4 . 5. W. H. Barnes , " Browne's ' Hydriotaphia ' to Adipocere , " Isis , XX ( 1933 ) , 339-343 . 6. For metrical ...
... Ancient Funeral Monuments , I in Cat . ) , J. Kirchmann , De Funeribus Roma ( Cat . , p . 13 , no . 17 ) . 4. Works , IV , 4 . 5. W. H. Barnes , " Browne's ' Hydriotaphia ' to Adipocere , " Isis , XX ( 1933 ) , 339-343 . 6. For metrical ...
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From Cheapside to Winchester | 2 |
Residence in Yorkshire | 90 |
Civil StrifeBrownes Second | 125 |
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