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 95
... hand ] to Fortune , or a bare ( good stars . " In the original version of even boasted of his recklessness : " I us dyets , humours , ayres , hunger , thirst , c plenty , necessity , dangers , hazards ; wh cure not my selfe by heate ...
... hand ] to Fortune , or a bare ( good stars . " In the original version of even boasted of his recklessness : " I us dyets , humours , ayres , hunger , thirst , c plenty , necessity , dangers , hazards ; wh cure not my selfe by heate ...
Page 189
... as Browne's tain flashes of style . The general impress hand and a swiftly moving imagination this one passage of twenty - seven lines out a word , or a beginning of a word , a has seniority over the arts s way Browne fashioned e.
... as Browne's tain flashes of style . The general impress hand and a swiftly moving imagination this one passage of twenty - seven lines out a word , or a beginning of a word , a has seniority over the arts s way Browne fashioned e.
Page 250
... hand , of the " books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read them all out . " And what a list it is ! Plutarch , and Josephus , histories of Naples , Venice , " some hundreds of sermons , ” “ all the ...
... hand , of the " books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read them all out . " And what a list it is ! Plutarch , and Josephus , histories of Naples , Venice , " some hundreds of sermons , ” “ all the ...
Contents
From Cheapside to Winchester | 2 |
Residence in Yorkshire | 90 |
Civil StrifeBrownes Second | 125 |
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