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" 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... "
Sir Thomas Browne - Page 35
by Sir Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 214 pages
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Religio Medici

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...more at the operation of two souls in those little bodies, than but one in the trunk of a cedar 9 ? I could never content my contemplation with those...wonder, the flux and reflux of the sea, the increase of the Nile, the conversion of the needle to the north ; and have studied to match and parallel those...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...more at the operation of two souls in those little bodies than but one in the trunk of a cedar ? 2 I could never content my contemplation with those...obvious and neglected pieces of nature, which, without farther travel, I can do in the cosmographyof myself. (We carry with us the wonders we seek without...
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Religio Medici, together with A Letter to a Friend on the Death of his ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 420 pages
...the Nile, the converfion of the needle to the north ; and have ftudied to match and parallel thofe in the more obvious and neglected pieces of nature, which without further travel I can do in the cofmography of * See Appendix C. f See Appendix D. myfelf : we carry with us the wonders we feek without...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 584 pages
...not more at the operation of two souls in those little bodies than but one in the trunk of a cedar ?2 I could never content my contemplation with those...obvious and neglected pieces of nature which, without farther travel, I can do in the cosmography of myself. We carry with us the wonders we seek without...
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Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 2

sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...not more at the operation of two souls in those little bodies than but one in the trunk of a cedar ?2 I could never content my contemplation with those...obvious and neglected ^pieces of nature which, without farther travel, I can do in the cosmography of myself. We carry with us the wonders we seek without...
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Notes, theological, political, and miscellaneous, ed. by D. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 580 pages
...not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor his disciples, &c. So say I. Ibid. Sect. 15. I could never content my contemplation with those...to match and parallel those in the more obvious and her i* to feigning i by itself, ibility to - all kind •iome one itr. It is who shall love ; and ss...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...him, and is as it were his revived self. The wo'nders of Nature. — (Part i., sections 15, 16.) — I could never content my contemplation with those...the North ; and have studied to match and parallel these in the more obvious and neglected pieces of nature which, without further travel, I can do in...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...him, and is as it were his revived self. The wonders of Nature. — (Part i., sections 15, 16.) — I could never content my contemplation with those...the North ; and have studied to match and parallel these in the more obvious and neglected pieces of nature which, without further travel, I can do in...
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Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific

Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...goeth forth again to her labour till the evening." THE WONDERS OF NATURE. — (SiR THOMAS BROWNE.*) I COULD never content my contemplation with those...wonder, the flux and reflux of the sea, the increase of the Nile, the conversion of the needle to the north ; and I have studied to match and parallel these...
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The Book-hunter, Etc

John Hill Burton - 1862 - 410 pages
...not more at the operation of two souls in those little bodies, than but one in the trunk of a cedar ? I could never content my contemplation with those...wonder, the flux and reflux of the sea, the increase of the Nile, the conversion of the needle to the north; and have studied to match and parallel those in...
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