Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithSchuman, 1950 - 319 pages A study of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth century physician who was deeply concerned with his own faith at a time of religious strife and of new interest in science, and the remarkable age in which he lived. |
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Page 30
... death of his grandfather , Powle Garraway , in 1620 , his inheritance was increased . Nor is there any reason for accepting Johnson's statement that the boy was left helpless and unprotected . Browne seems to have been on good terms ...
... death of his grandfather , Powle Garraway , in 1620 , his inheritance was increased . Nor is there any reason for accepting Johnson's statement that the boy was left helpless and unprotected . Browne seems to have been on good terms ...
Page 268
... death . Where did the balance fall ? Religio Medici was a plea for the validity of both ways of approaching the problems of existence ; Vulgar Errors , a part of the long conquest of ignorance and superstition ; Urn Burial , a ...
... death . Where did the balance fall ? Religio Medici was a plea for the validity of both ways of approaching the problems of existence ; Vulgar Errors , a part of the long conquest of ignorance and superstition ; Urn Burial , a ...
Page 273
... death came on his own birth- day - a possibility he had speculated about in Religio Medici . He drew his will in ... death . " He had also written that " at my death I mean to take a total adieu of the World , not caring for a Monument ...
... death came on his own birth- day - a possibility he had speculated about in Religio Medici . He drew his will in ... death . " He had also written that " at my death I mean to take a total adieu of the World , not caring for a Monument ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith 3 | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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