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 47
... 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 96
... wrote a fulsome letter to Norwich , calling Browne's book " the masterpiece of Christendom . " " 21 Alexander Ross Thunders But Religio Medici provoked mightily the contentious Alexander Ross , a Scotch schoolmaster who wrote inde ...
... wrote a fulsome letter to Norwich , calling Browne's book " the masterpiece of Christendom . " " 21 Alexander Ross Thunders But Religio Medici provoked mightily the contentious Alexander Ross , a Scotch schoolmaster who wrote inde ...
Page 187
... wrote : " I give you many thankes for the bill ; my sicknesse 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 send- ing ...
... wrote : " I give you many thankes for the bill ; my sicknesse 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 send- ing ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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