For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round... No Hero: An Autobiography : [a Novel] - Sida 322efter Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1863 - 355 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sidor
...Medici We ;il. labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. 1616 Religlo Medici 19-1881 12195 'What rules the world' For 1617 Religio Medici There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements,... | |
| C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 522 sidor
...Bierce, Ambrose A place where the sick generally obtain two kinds of treatment..., 168 Browne, Sir Thomas For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital..., 168 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett And social comfort, in a hospital..., 169 Kerr, Jean One of the most... | |
| Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 sidor
...up like old apples, make them so many anatomies. Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, i(1621) 8 For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in. Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, ii (1643) s How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to... | |
| J. Kent Minichiello, Anthony W. White - 2001 - 460 sidor
...Perhaps Sir Thomas Browne would have been less prone to count the world, as he said he did, "not an Inne, but an Hospital!, and a place, not to live, but to die in," if research into God's creatures had required of him more physical exertion in an intractable out-of-doors.... | |
| Donald D. Hook - 2002 - 260 sidor
...his head. "Damned if I understand what the hell he would have against a poor blind woman." BELLEVUE For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. — Sir Thomas Browne DARRYL AWAKENED LATE but did not know it. There was no clock on the wall and... | |
| Kerrie L. Macpherson - 2002 - 378 sidor
...place', a place, as one seventeenth-century authority on religious medicine wrote, 'I count not an Inne, but an Hospital, and a place not to live, but to die'. Buchan's widely known Domestic Medicine warned that even physicians and surgeons 'who attended hospitals... | |
| Peter McDonald - 2004 - 228 sidor
...originating outside its own members. Sir Thomas Browne 1605-82 English physiäan. writer and rhetorician For the world, I count it not an inn. but an hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in. Religio Medici ii. Sect. II ( 1643 We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all... | |
| Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - 2006 - 597 sidor
...Lamentation, Pain, Grief and Despair are suffering. Saying Thomas Browne; 1643 1537 For the World, 1 count it not an Inn, but an Hospital; and a place not to live, but to dye in. The world that I regard is my self; it is the Microcosm of my own frame. Religio Medici Oliver... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 348 sidor
...to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital, and a place, not to live but to die in. The world that I regard is my• TV, self; it is the microcosm of mine own frame, v that I cast mine... | |
| University of St. Andrews - 1912 - 992 sidor
...which to relate were not a history but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn but an hospital, and a place not to live in but to die in. The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast... | |
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