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TO WHICH IS ADDED,
HYDRIOTAPHIA, OR URN-BURIAL,
A
Biscourse on Sepulchral Urns :
BY
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, M.D.
OF NORWICH.
WITH
A Preliminary Discourse and Notes,
J. A. ST. JOHN, ESQ.
LONDON:
HENRY WASHBOURNE, SALISBURY SQUARE,
FLEET STREET.
1841.
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HARVARD COLLEGE HIDRARY CIFT CF
MRG. THOMAS VENT' ORTHODON MRS. MARCARET HIGGINGON CARNEY
Jul 419915.
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Preliminary Discourse.
St. Augustin
Religio Medici a confession
Handel and Buffon-Cardan and Montaigne
Character of Montaigne's Essays
Melancholy of Sir Thomas Browne
Healthy Constitution
Happiness of Dreams
Sonnet from Milton
Anacreon's Bathyllus
Quixotism in Literature
Unworldly Philosophy
Notions of Friar Bacon
Immortality of the Soul
Philosophy of the Commonwealth
Milton-Marvel-Harrington-Sidney
Timid Character of Hobbes, and Sir Thomas Browne
Objections of Sir Kenelm Digby
Reply to those Objections
Sympathies of Sir Thomas Browne
Eating of Larks and Crickets
Dissertation on Epitaphs
Landor's imaginary Conversations
Philosophical Idea of Greatness
Anatomy of the Human Frame
Obscurity of Sir Thomas Browne
Contemplations of the Microcosm
Chinese Maxim
Piety and Eloquence of Sir Thomas Browne
Digby, Ptolemy and the Koran
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Object of the Religio Medici
Errors of great Authors
Language of our Ancestors
Belief in Impossibilities
Proof of Contradictions
Humility of true Philosophy
Trifling Disquisitions
Cemeteries, Ghosts and Devils
Lord Bacon and Dionysius of Syracuse
Philosophy of the Easy-chair
Ideal of a moral Physician
Love of Mankind
Wingrove Cooke and the Examiner
Character of the People
Charity of Sir Thomas Browne
Beauty of the Example of Christ
Spirit of Charity
Conclusion
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Religio Medici
Letter to Sir Kenelm Digby
Sir Kenelm Digby's Reply
Author's Preface
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Religio Medici.-
Part I.
Influence of Professional Studies on Religion
Spirit of Toleration
Aversion to Sectarian Appellations
Corruptions of Religion
Leaning towards Superstition
Influence of Ceremonies
Browne a Member of the Church of England
Effect of Disputation
Advocacy of Truth
Plato's Great Year
Opinions of Origen
Progress of Heresies
Milton's sublime Conception of Beauty
Disquisition on Mysteries
Physical Helps to Belief
Misinterpretation of Genesis
Contemplation of Eternity
Mystery of the Trinity
Wisdom of God
Employment of the word Idea Beautiful Scenery lost upon the Ignorant Motion of the first Matter Nature does nothing in vain
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Religio Medici.-Part E.
Nature and Revelation
Physical Theology
Beauty of Nature
Ugliness of the Chaos
Reading of the Future
Discarding of Fortune
Poverty of Great Men
Fable of Prometheus and Epimetheus
Doctrine of Second Causes
Reason-Faith-and Fashion
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Doctrine of Epicurus
Book of the three Impostors
Miracles of Scripture
Triling Speculations
Ark of Noah
Doctrine of Guardian Angels
Antiquity of the Pentateuch
Recovery of lost Writings
Characteristics of Christianity
Effects of Persecution
Death of Socrates
Fear of Death
Disquisition of Miracles
Baldwin, King of Jerusalem
Statue of Memnon, and the Pyramids
Faith in Witchcraft
Magic, and bad Angels
Plato and the Hermetical Philosophers
Belief in Guardian Angels
Origin of the Essay on Man
Explanation of the Microcosm
Immaterial World
Aristotle's Philosophy
Paracelsus and Frankenstein
Transfusion of the Soul
Pre-existence of Souls
Transmigration of Souls ...
Ghosts and Goblins
Life and Happiness
Age of Adam at his Creation
Ideas of Death
Contempt of Fame
Prematute old Age of the Author
Philosophy of Life
Morris-dance Centenarians
Philosophy of Lucian
Advantages of Death
Old Age of the World
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