Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3

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W. Pickering, 1835

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206 ページ - 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.
509 ページ - 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.
277 ページ - 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.
112 ページ - 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.
111 ページ - There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
79 ページ - 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;
91 ページ - 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...
110 ページ - 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.
9 ページ - ... tis therefore far better to enjoy her with peace than to hazard her on a battle.
113 ページ - 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.

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