Sir Thomas BrowneMacmillan, 1905 - 214 sidor |
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Sida 197 - Laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires, unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an Urne.
Sida 119 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Sida 120 - ... tis all one to lie in St. Innocent's churchyard, as in the sands of Egypt: ready to be anything, in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.
Sida 48 - Song for St. Cecilia's Day FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began...
Sida 130 - Richard, to our inexpressible grief and affliction; five years and three days old only, but at that tender age a prodigy for wit and understanding ; for beauty of body a very angel ; for endowment of mind, of incredible and rare hopes.
Sida 199 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Sida 42 - I believe that our estranged and divided ashes shall unite again; that our separated dust, after so many pilgrimages and transformations into the parts of minerals, plants, animals, elements, shall at the voice of God return into their primitive shapes, and join again to make up their primary and predestinate forms.
Sida 35 - I could never content my contemplation with those general pieces of wonder, the Flux and Reflux of the Sea, the increase of Nile, the conversion of the Needle to the North...
Sida 29 - I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent my self.
Sida 205 - But all was vanity, feeding the wind, and folly. The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams.
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Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & Faith Jeremiah Stanton Finch Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1950 |
The Modern Idea of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal and Its Refelection ... Dagobert De Levie Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1947 |