Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithCollier Books, 1961 - 251 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 82
... essays with which he occupied himself . None of these companion pieces seem to have survived ; he probably destroyed them ... essay itself , tells us something of the manner in which Religio Medici was written . Browne was an inveterate ...
... essays with which he occupied himself . None of these companion pieces seem to have survived ; he probably destroyed them ... essay itself , tells us something of the manner in which Religio Medici was written . Browne was an inveterate ...
Page 84
... essay are held together loosely , it has a basic unity , which is found , not in a structural pattern , but in the character of its author . The best clue as to the actual date of composition is his passing remark : " As yet I have not ...
... essay are held together loosely , it has a basic unity , which is found , not in a structural pattern , but in the character of its author . The best clue as to the actual date of composition is his passing remark : " As yet I have not ...
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... essay on the quincunx , for the mystical number 7 had there received more attention than 5 . The quincunx was that arrangement of five in which the ancients laid out their orchards . The term was used by the Romans to denote an ...
... essay on the quincunx , for the mystical number 7 had there received more attention than 5 . The quincunx was that arrangement of five in which the ancients laid out their orchards . The term was used by the Romans to denote an ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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