Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3W. Pickering, 1835 |
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... quadrupeds ; while the souls of inferior persons were supposed to pass into weazels , beetles , and such other meaner animals . " D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature , vol . ii , p . 49-52 . - Ed . With respect to the real opinions of ...
... quadrupeds ; while the souls of inferior persons were supposed to pass into weazels , beetles , and such other meaner animals . " D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature , vol . ii , p . 49-52 . - Ed . With respect to the real opinions of ...
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... quadrupeds , volatiles , and fishes , which have dis- tinct and prominent organs of motion , -legs , wings , and fins , but in such also as perform their progression by the trunk , - as serpents , worms , and leeches ; whereof , though ...
... quadrupeds , volatiles , and fishes , which have dis- tinct and prominent organs of motion , -legs , wings , and fins , but in such also as perform their progression by the trunk , - as serpents , worms , and leeches ; whereof , though ...
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... quadrupeds , as horses , camels , deer , sheep , and dogs ; for their fore - legs bend like our legs , and their hinder legs like our arms , when we move them to our shoulders . But quadrupeds oviparous , as frogs , 8 and they never ...
... quadrupeds , as horses , camels , deer , sheep , and dogs ; for their fore - legs bend like our legs , and their hinder legs like our arms , when we move them to our shoulders . But quadrupeds oviparous , as frogs , 8 and they never ...
Էջ 392
... quadrupeds , and more obscurely and grossly almost than any , he doth herein no injury unto truth . But if , à dicto secundùm quid ad dictum simpliciter , he affirmeth also they have no articulations at all , he incurs the controlment ...
... quadrupeds , and more obscurely and grossly almost than any , he doth herein no injury unto truth . But if , à dicto secundùm quid ad dictum simpliciter , he affirmeth also they have no articulations at all , he incurs the controlment ...
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... quadrupeds whenever he can ; and if a helpless living creature , such as an in- fant or a wounded man , lie in his way , he will move the object . The elephant is naturally gentle - anxious alone to pro- cure his own food without ...
... quadrupeds whenever he can ; and if a helpless living creature , such as an in- fant or a wounded man , lie in his way , he will move the object . The elephant is naturally gentle - anxious alone to pro- cure his own food without ...
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Էջ 206 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Էջ 509 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Էջ 277 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Էջ 112 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of /company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Էջ 111 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Էջ 79 - It is unquestionably true in great as well as in little things, that ' if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not;
Էջ 91 - I make not, therefore, my head a grave, but a treasure of knowledge ; I intend no monopoly but a community in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves. I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. I instruct no man as an exercise of my knowledge, or with an intent rather to nourish and keep it alive in mine own head...
Էջ 110 - The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh that circumscribes me limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end cannot persuade me I have any.
Էջ 9 - ... tis therefore far better to enjoy her with peace than to hazard her on a battle.
Էջ 113 - The night is come, like to the day, Depart not Thou, great God, away. Let not my sins, black as the night, Eclipse the lustre of Thy light : Keep still in my Horizon ; for to me The Sun makes not the day, but Thee.