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 35by Sir Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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