Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... hath an erect figure . THAT only man hath an erect figure , and for to behold and look up toward heaven , according to that of the poet : 1 Pronaque cum spectant animalia cętera terram , Os homini sublime dedit , cœlumque tueri Jussit ...
... hath an erect figure . THAT only man hath an erect figure , and for to behold and look up toward heaven , according to that of the poet : 1 Pronaque cum spectant animalia cętera terram , Os homini sublime dedit , cœlumque tueri Jussit ...
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... hath a notable dis- advantage in the eye - lid , whereof the upper is far greater than the lower , which abridgeth the sight upwards contrary to those of birds , who herein have the advantage of man ; insomuch that the learned Plempius ...
... hath a notable dis- advantage in the eye - lid , whereof the upper is far greater than the lower , which abridgeth the sight upwards contrary to those of birds , who herein have the advantage of man ; insomuch that the learned Plempius ...
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... hath beheld the posture of a bittern , will not deny that it beholds almost the very zenith.7 not the same with uranoscopus , to which the same is equivocal , bycause this pos- ture , being always at the botom , hee lookes alwayes ...
... hath beheld the posture of a bittern , will not deny that it beholds almost the very zenith.7 not the same with uranoscopus , to which the same is equivocal , bycause this pos- ture , being always at the botom , hee lookes alwayes ...
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... hath the honour to bear our rings . Which was not only the Christian practice in nuptial contracts , but observed by heathens , as Alexander ab Alexandro , Gellius , Macrobius and Pierius have delivered , as Levinus Lemnius hath ...
... hath the honour to bear our rings . Which was not only the Christian practice in nuptial contracts , but observed by heathens , as Alexander ab Alexandro , Gellius , Macrobius and Pierius have delivered , as Levinus Lemnius hath ...
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... hath al- leged another reason ; affirming that the gestation of rings upon this hand and finger , might rather be used for their conveniency and preservation , than any cordial relation . For at first ( saith he ) it was both free and ...
... hath al- leged another reason ; affirming that the gestation of rings upon this hand and finger , might rather be used for their conveniency and preservation , than any cordial relation . For at first ( saith he ) it was both free and ...
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