Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His WritingsHilliard and Brown, 1831 - 304 pages |
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... surely plausible even before it was confirmed by later ob- servations . The reputation of Browne encouraged some low writer to publish , under his name , a book called " Nature's Cabinet Unlocked , " translated , according to Wood ...
... surely plausible even before it was confirmed by later ob- servations . The reputation of Browne encouraged some low writer to publish , under his name , a book called " Nature's Cabinet Unlocked , " translated , according to Wood ...
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... Surely it is but the merits of our unworthy natures , if we sleep in darkness until the last alarm . A serious reflex upon my own unworthiness did make me backward from challenging this pre- rogative of my soul . So that I might enjoy ...
... Surely it is but the merits of our unworthy natures , if we sleep in darkness until the last alarm . A serious reflex upon my own unworthiness did make me backward from challenging this pre- rogative of my soul . So that I might enjoy ...
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... Surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystical letters , than we Christians , who cast a more careless eye on these common hieroglyphics , and disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of na- ture . Nor do I so ...
... Surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystical letters , than we Christians , who cast a more careless eye on these common hieroglyphics , and disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of na- ture . Nor do I so ...
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... Surely there are in every man's life certain rubs , doublings , and wrenches , which pass a while under the effects of chance , but at the last , well examined , prove the mere hand of God . ' T was not dumb chance , that to discover ...
... Surely there are in every man's life certain rubs , doublings , and wrenches , which pass a while under the effects of chance , but at the last , well examined , prove the mere hand of God . ' T was not dumb chance , that to discover ...
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... surely owe the discovery of many secrets to the discovery of good and bad angels . I could never pass that sentence of Paracelsus , without an asterisk , or annotation ; Ascendens con- stellatum multa revelat quærentibus magnalia naturæ ...
... surely owe the discovery of many secrets to the discovery of good and bad angels . I could never pass that sentence of Paracelsus , without an asterisk , or annotation ; Ascendens con- stellatum multa revelat quærentibus magnalia naturæ ...
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Page 212 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Page 208 - Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto late posterity, as emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices.
Page 211 - To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?
Page 211 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity ; who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it: time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself.
Page 210 - Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.
Page 119 - I do embrace it ; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotipn, and a profound contemplation of the first Composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers...
Page xxix - I could never hear the Ave Mary bell * without an elevation ; or think it a sufficient warrant, because they erred in one circumstance, for me to err in all, that is, in silence and dumb contempt: whilst therefore they directed their devotions to her, I offered mine to God, and rectified the errors of their prayers, by rightly ordering mine own.
Page 289 - Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible : were it not for darkness and the shadow of the earth, the noblest part of the creation had remained unseen, and the stars in heaven as invisible as on the fourth day, when they were created above the horizon with the sun, or there was not an eye to behold them.
Page 207 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial...
Page 95 - If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.