The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, cont. Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus (1658) Certain miscellany tracts (1684) A letter to a friend (1690) Posthumous works (1712) Christian morals (1716) Notes on certain birds and fishes found in Norfolk. On the Ostrich. Boulimia centenaria. Upon the dark mist, 27th November 1674. Account of a thunderstorm at Norwich, 1665. On dreams. Observationson Grafting. Corrigenda. IndexG. Richards, 1907 |
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, cont. Hydriotaphia ... Sir Thomas Browne Volledige weergave - 1907 |
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, cont. Hydriotaphia ... Sir Thomas Browne Volledige weergave - 1907 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 11 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Pagina 136 - ... buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests : what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say : Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim ? Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.
Pagina 139 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
Pagina 261 - And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth ; and the mule that was under him went away.
Pagina 140 - Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.
Pagina 137 - Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.
Pagina 135 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Pagina 142 - There is nothing strictly immortal but immortality ; whatever hath no beginning, may be confident of no end. All others have a dependent being, and within the reach of destruction, which is the peculiar...
Pagina 140 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity.
Pagina 30 - And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit, shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.