Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... hundred and forty pounds , and his brain but five , his weight is twenty seven times as much as his brain , deducting the weight of that five pounds which is allowed for it . Now in a snipe , which weighed four ounces two drachms , I ...
... hundred and forty pounds , and his brain but five , his weight is twenty seven times as much as his brain , deducting the weight of that five pounds which is allowed for it . Now in a snipe , which weighed four ounces two drachms , I ...
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... hundreds and thousands ; the depressing this finger , which in the left hand implied but six , in the right indigitated six hundred . In this way of numeration , may we construe that of Juvenal concerning Nestor . Qui per tot sæcula ...
... hundreds and thousands ; the depressing this finger , which in the left hand implied but six , in the right indigitated six hundred . In this way of numeration , may we construe that of Juvenal concerning Nestor . Qui per tot sæcula ...
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... hundred years before , by Pliny in that problem of his , cur sternutantes salutantur ; and there are also reports that Tiberius the emperor , other- wise a very sour man , would perform this rite most punctually unto others , and expect ...
... hundred years before , by Pliny in that problem of his , cur sternutantes salutantur ; and there are also reports that Tiberius the emperor , other- wise a very sour man , would perform this rite most punctually unto others , and expect ...
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... hundred thousand for slaves . Not many years after , Adrian the emperor , who ruined the whole country , transplanted many thousands into Spain , from whence they dispersed into divers countries , as into France and England , but were ...
... hundred thousand for slaves . Not many years after , Adrian the emperor , who ruined the whole country , transplanted many thousands into Spain , from whence they dispersed into divers countries , as into France and England , but were ...
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... hundred talents , as Athenæus terms it , although ever to be admired , as containing most ex- cellent truths , yet are many things therein delivered upon relation , and some repugnant unto the history of our senses ; as we are able to ...
... hundred talents , as Athenæus terms it , although ever to be admired , as containing most ex- cellent truths , yet are many things therein delivered upon relation , and some repugnant unto the history of our senses ; as we are able to ...
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