Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... side Chap . 3. That pleurisies are only on the left side Chap . 4. Of the ring finger Chap . 5. Of the right and left hand Chap . 6. On swimming and floating · Chap . 7. That men weigh heavier dead than alive , and before meat than ...
... side Chap . 3. That pleurisies are only on the left side Chap . 4. Of the ring finger Chap . 5. Of the right and left hand Chap . 6. On swimming and floating · Chap . 7. That men weigh heavier dead than alive , and before meat than ...
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... side of a knife ; of the woman fed with poison that should have poisoned Alexander ; of the wandering Jew ; of Friar 341 to 345 345 to 353 Bacon's brazen head that spoke ; of Epicurus 353 to 362 Chap . 18. More briefly of some others ...
... side of a knife ; of the woman fed with poison that should have poisoned Alexander ; of the wandering Jew ; of Friar 341 to 345 345 to 353 Bacon's brazen head that spoke ; of Epicurus 353 to 362 Chap . 18. More briefly of some others ...
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... side , their eyes on the other side look upward toward heaven . For birds , they generally carry their heads erected like a man , and have ad- vantage in their upper eye - lid , and many that have long necks , and bear their heads ...
... side , their eyes on the other side look upward toward heaven . For birds , they generally carry their heads erected like a man , and have ad- vantage in their upper eye - lid , and many that have long necks , and bear their heads ...
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... side . THAT the heart of man is seated in the left side is an asse- veration , which , strictly taken , is refutable by inspection , whereby it appears the base and centre thereof is in the midst . of the chest ; true it is , that the ...
... side . THAT the heart of man is seated in the left side is an asse- veration , which , strictly taken , is refutable by inspection , whereby it appears the base and centre thereof is in the midst . of the chest ; true it is , that the ...
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... side , and thus in a popular acception may we receive the periphrasis of Persius , when he taketh the part under the left pap for the heart , and if rightly appre- hended , it concerneth not this controversy , when it is said in ...
... side , and thus in a popular acception may we receive the periphrasis of Persius , when he taketh the part under the left pap for the heart , and if rightly appre- hended , it concerneth not this controversy , when it is said in ...
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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.
Page 197 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
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.