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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... person . Hazlitt recorded a conver- sation which began when someone asked Lamb what men in English literature he would most wish to have seen . On the question being started , Ayrton said , “ T suppose the two first persons you would ...
... person . Hazlitt recorded a conver- sation which began when someone asked Lamb what men in English literature he would most wish to have seen . On the question being started , Ayrton said , “ T suppose the two first persons you would ...
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... person of great knowledge ; who after this evidence given , and upon view of the three persons in Court , was desired to give his opinion , what he did conceive of them : and he was clearly of opinion , that the per- sons were bewitched ...
... person of great knowledge ; who after this evidence given , and upon view of the three persons in Court , was desired to give his opinion , what he did conceive of them : and he was clearly of opinion , that the per- sons were bewitched ...
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... person that so well deserves a good one , " he tried it again — with final success . In his Vanity of Dogmatizing , which he revised and ad- dressed to the Royal Society , Joseph Glanvill pointed out that magnetized needles " avert from ...
... person that so well deserves a good one , " he tried it again — with final success . In his Vanity of Dogmatizing , which he revised and ad- dressed to the Royal Society , Joseph Glanvill pointed out that magnetized needles " avert from ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith 3 | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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