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 16
... tells of a typical mountebank , " one Valentyne " : When anye came to him wyth urines ... he made them be- lieve , that onlye by feling the weight thereof , he would tell them all theyr diseases in their bodies , or wythout : And other ...
... tells of a typical mountebank , " one Valentyne " : When anye came to him wyth urines ... he made them be- lieve , that onlye by feling the weight thereof , he would tell them all theyr diseases in their bodies , or wythout : And other ...
Page 82
... tell us much about Browne that we do not already know , and the mere statement that he once composed them , together with what can be discovered from his notebooks and from the essay itself , tells us something of the manner in which ...
... tell us much about Browne that we do not already know , and the mere statement that he once composed them , together with what can be discovered from his notebooks and from the essay itself , tells us something of the manner in which ...
Page 195
... tells how : Hee finds about the howse divers things that were your brother's , & Betty sometimes tells him stories about him , so that hee was importunate with her to write his life in a quarter of a sheet of paper & read it unto him ...
... tells how : Hee finds about the howse divers things that were your brother's , & Betty sometimes tells him stories about him , so that hee was importunate with her to write his life in a quarter of a sheet of paper & read it unto him ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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