Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... doth the frog , though stretched out , or swimming , attain the rectitude of man , or 1 The poet . ] Ovid . Met . i , 84 . also Cicero , De Nat . Deor . ii , 56 . See 2 Man only is erect . ] But itt is most evident that baboones and ...
... doth the frog , though stretched out , or swimming , attain the rectitude of man , or 1 The poet . ] Ovid . Met . i , 84 . also Cicero , De Nat . Deor . ii , 56 . See 2 Man only is erect . ] But itt is most evident that baboones and ...
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... doth not , except he recline , or bend his head backward ; and thus to look up to heaven agreeth not only unto man but asses ; to omit birds with long necks , which look not only upward , but round about at pleasure ; and therefore men ...
... doth not , except he recline , or bend his head backward ; and thus to look up to heaven agreeth not only unto man but asses ; to omit birds with long necks , which look not only upward , but round about at pleasure ; and therefore men ...
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... doth seem to incline upon the left ; which happeneth not from its proper site , but besides its sinistrous gravity , is 8 Gnomon . ] There is not the same reason of a gnomon and a needle . This is ever in the midst , but a gnomon stands ...
... doth seem to incline upon the left ; which happeneth not from its proper site , but besides its sinistrous gravity , is 8 Gnomon . ] There is not the same reason of a gnomon and a needle . This is ever in the midst , but a gnomon stands ...
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... doth furnish the left emulgent with one vein , and the first vein of the loins on the right side with another ; which manner of derivation doth not confer a peculiar addition unto either . Cælius Rhodiginus , undertaking to give a ...
... doth furnish the left emulgent with one vein , and the first vein of the loins on the right side with another ; which manner of derivation doth not confer a peculiar addition unto either . Cælius Rhodiginus , undertaking to give a ...
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... doth not properly admit it . For first , many in their infancy are sinis- trously disposed , and divers continue all their life ' Agorago , that is , left - handed , and have but weak and imperfect use of the right ; now unto these ...
... doth not properly admit it . For first , many in their infancy are sinis- trously disposed , and divers continue all their life ' Agorago , that is , left - handed , and have but weak and imperfect use of the right ; now unto these ...
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Page 110 - And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
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Page 305 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 119 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 494 - Sardanapalus, but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires, unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.
Page 321 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Page 492 - 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.
Page 492 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
Page 112 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 55 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.