The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondenceHenry G. Bohn, 1852 - 1578 pages |
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... English plantations be subject unto the same infirmity , may be worth the observing . Whether lameness and halting do still increase among the inhabitants of Rovigno in Istria , I know not ; yet scarce twenty years ago Monsieur du Loyr ...
... English plantations be subject unto the same infirmity , may be worth the observing . Whether lameness and halting do still increase among the inhabitants of Rovigno in Istria , I know not ; yet scarce twenty years ago Monsieur du Loyr ...
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... English gentleman hath no peer . PART THE SECOND . SECT . I. - Punish not thyself with pleasure ; glut not thy sense with palative delights ; nor revenge the contempt of temperance by the penalty of satiety . Were there an age of ...
... English gentleman hath no peer . PART THE SECOND . SECT . I. - Punish not thyself with pleasure ; glut not thy sense with palative delights ; nor revenge the contempt of temperance by the penalty of satiety . Were there an age of ...
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... English observers , who call barley summer corn , sown so many months after wheat , and [ who ] beside ( hordeum poly- stichon , or big barley ) , sow not barley in the winter to anti- cipate the growth of wheat . And the same may also ...
... English observers , who call barley summer corn , sown so many months after wheat , and [ who ] beside ( hordeum poly- stichon , or big barley ) , sow not barley in the winter to anti- cipate the growth of wheat . And the same may also ...
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... English travellers * saith , that they are now but in one place , and in a small compass , in Libanus.6 Quando ingressi fueritis terram , et plantaveritis in illa ligna pomifera , auferetis præputia eorum . Poma quæ ger- minant ...
... English travellers * saith , that they are now but in one place , and in a small compass , in Libanus.6 Quando ingressi fueritis terram , et plantaveritis in illa ligna pomifera , auferetis præputia eorum . Poma quæ ger- minant ...
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... & c . ] " Spreading himself ( is the English version ) like a green bay tree : " -more accurately " like a native tree " -a tree grow- -01 66 * writers draw frequent illustrations from plants . 190 [ TRACT I. DIVISION OF PLANTS .
... & c . ] " Spreading himself ( is the English version ) like a green bay tree : " -more accurately " like a native tree " -a tree grow- -01 66 * writers draw frequent illustrations from plants . 190 [ TRACT I. DIVISION OF PLANTS .
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Page 156 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together...
Page 185 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Page 167 - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
Page 45 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 176 - Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen ; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Page 43 - Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 41 - ... buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests; what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, " Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim." ' Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.
Page 49 - ... tis all one to lie in St. Innocent's Churchyard as in the sands of Egypt : ready to be anything, in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.
Page 48 - Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of pre-ordination, and night of their fore-beings. And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world...
Page 173 - The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.