Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithA 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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From the time when the seventeenth - century writers were being rediscovered by the romantic essayists down to the present day , Browne has been largely at the mercy of critics who richly appreciated his great prose but slighted or ...
From the time when the seventeenth - century writers were being rediscovered by the romantic essayists down to the present day , Browne has been largely at the mercy of critics who richly appreciated his great prose but slighted or ...
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Time past is gone like a Shadow ; make time to come present . Approximate the latter times by present apprehensions of them : be like a neighbour unto the Grave , and think there is but little to come . And since there is something of ...
Time past is gone like a Shadow ; make time to come present . Approximate the latter times by present apprehensions of them : be like a neighbour unto the Grave , and think there is but little to come . And since there is something of ...
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Chapter 3 I. Mr. Austin Smith , late Archivist to the College , informed the present writer that in his interleaved copy of Winchester Scholars , ( London , 1888 ) Kirby added the MS note that Browne " migrated to Commoners , " but that ...
Chapter 3 I. Mr. Austin Smith , late Archivist to the College , informed the present writer that in his interleaved copy of Winchester Scholars , ( London , 1888 ) Kirby added the MS note that Browne " migrated to Commoners , " but that ...
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Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & Faith Issue 16 of Life of science library |
| Author | Jeremiah Stanton Finch |
| Publisher | Schuman, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 319 pages |
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