Selected WritingsCarcanet Press, 1995 - 168 pages Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), physician and philosopher, is celebrated principally for his Religio Medici and his study of burial customs, Urn Burial, masterpieces of English prose. But a portrait of Browne as a seventeenth-century intellectual must include much that is rarely seen except by specialists. The Pseudodoxia Epidemica, for example, tracts, letters to naturalists and antiquarians, notebooks and observations on natural history, are neglected. This modernised edition includes the complete text of Urn Burial, selections from Religio Medici, and much else to give account of Browne as doctor, scientist, philosopher, Christian, political and social being. Designed for those unfamiliar with Browne's sometimes opaque prose, it includes substantial annotation and a full introduction. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 11
Page 46
... Pliny , who assigns the cause of this effect : an animal ( saith he ) so cold that it extinguisheth the fire like ice . All which notwithstanding , there is on the negative authority and experience . Sextius , a physician , as Pliny ...
... Pliny , who assigns the cause of this effect : an animal ( saith he ) so cold that it extinguisheth the fire like ice . All which notwithstanding , there is on the negative authority and experience . Sextius , a physician , as Pliny ...
Page 88
... Pliny when he commendeth bricks and tiles of two years old , and to make them in the spring . Nor only these ... Pliny's days . And such as declined burning or funeral urns , affected coffins of clay , according to the mode of Pythagoras ...
... Pliny when he commendeth bricks and tiles of two years old , and to make them in the spring . Nor only these ... Pliny's days . And such as declined burning or funeral urns , affected coffins of clay , according to the mode of Pythagoras ...
Page 93
... Pliny says that England might have been an example in its superstitious ceremonies to the country most notorious for it , and from whom the magic was derived ( Pliny 30.4 ) 55 ] evisceration 56 ] difficult feat to perform 58 ] ' which ...
... Pliny says that England might have been an example in its superstitious ceremonies to the country most notorious for it , and from whom the magic was derived ( Pliny 30.4 ) 55 ] evisceration 56 ] difficult feat to perform 58 ] ' which ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according Adam Aelian agreeable unto ancient animals antiquity apprehension Aristotle Arthur Dee ashes BC Greek BC Roman behold believe birds body bones Browne's buried burning burnt Caesar Christ Christians common conceive conjecture contrived corruption dead death delivered divinity Domitian doth doubt draughts earth Eastern Roman emperor eggs Egyptians Elias Ashmole enquiry eyes father figure fire flesh funeral Gammadims Garden of Cyrus Genesis grave handsome hath head heaven hieroglyphical Hippocrates historian honour horns interment Italian king Latin Leo Africanus Letters live monuments Moses mystical nature Norwich notwithstanding obscure observed opinion oracles ostrich perhaps persons philosophy pieces plants Pliny Plutarch practice Pseudodoxia Epidemica pyre reason relics Religio Medici resurrection Roman emperor scholar Scripture seems sense sepulchral serpent sexes Sir Thomas Browne sneezing soul spermaceti spider spirits thereof things thought tion truth Urn-Burial urns Vespasian whale whereby wherein writer
References to this book
Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam No preview available - 1999 |