...microcosme of mine owne frame'. But this somatic definition of the self soon collapses: 'that masse 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. Browne was no Cartesian. Yet his distinction between...

...altitude; for I am above Atlas's shoulders and, though I seem on earth to stand, on tiptoe in heaven. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens...limits not my mind: that surface that tells the heavens it hath an end cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty,...

...outside, perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude, for I am above Atlas's shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens...limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end can not persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty....

...outside, proving only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas's shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of the heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of Hesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind....

...perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of heavenly and celestial part within us. That V {( mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my...