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 52
... wrote about duelling : Whither yea angry winds ! what breath is this that whistles nought but death ? what Paines thou takest , great God , to drowne those who are nothing at thy frowne . The careful steersman Looks about whither hee be ...
... wrote about duelling : Whither yea angry winds ! what breath is this that whistles nought but death ? what Paines thou takest , great God , to drowne those who are nothing at thy frowne . The careful steersman Looks about whither hee be ...
Page 116
... wrote a fulsome letter to Norwich , calling Browne's book " the masterpiece of Christen- dom . " 21 Alexander Ross Thunders But Religio Medici provoked mightily the contentious Alexander Ross , a Scotch schoolmaster who wrote in ...
... wrote a fulsome letter to Norwich , calling Browne's book " the masterpiece of Christen- dom . " 21 Alexander Ross Thunders But Religio Medici provoked mightily the contentious Alexander Ross , a Scotch schoolmaster who wrote in ...
Page 237
... wrote : " I give you many thankes for the bill ; my sick- nesse was a great hindrance to my practise in that sick time of the year , but I hope in God it will now encrease . ” Even two years later Sir Thomas and Dorothy were sending ...
... wrote : " I give you many thankes for the bill ; my sick- nesse was a great hindrance to my practise in that sick time of the year , but I hope in God it will now encrease . ” Even two years later Sir Thomas and Dorothy were sending ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith 3 | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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