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... heere spoken , doth still encourage mee . I have been heere alreadie 4 dayes , and intend to morrow or next day to go by sea to Lerici , a port of this state , about 70 miles of . Genoa is one of the best ports in these seas ; hath a ...
... heere spoken , doth still encourage mee . I have been heere alreadie 4 dayes , and intend to morrow or next day to go by sea to Lerici , a port of this state , about 70 miles of . Genoa is one of the best ports in these seas ; hath a ...
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... heere an academy ; those of it call themselves I recouerati ; one made a speech about the last commet , which I read in print . Hee afirms that there was at first obserued a large parallax by obserua- tion from diuers places , but by ...
... heere an academy ; those of it call themselves I recouerati ; one made a speech about the last commet , which I read in print . Hee afirms that there was at first obserued a large parallax by obserua- tion from diuers places , but by ...
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... heere is only the naming of them , their degrees in heat and cold , and sometimes their vse in physick , scarce a word more then may be seen in euery herball . When I was in Italie I did reade a booke De Vipera , printed at Florence ...
... heere is only the naming of them , their degrees in heat and cold , and sometimes their vse in physick , scarce a word more then may be seen in euery herball . When I was in Italie I did reade a booke De Vipera , printed at Florence ...
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... heere deciphered . 5. When the admirall desireth to speake with any of the commanders hee will abroad a pendant Main yard arme Fore yard arme Cambridge Fayrfax In the Mayne topsayle yard arme for the Dreadnought Fore topsayle yard arme ...
... heere deciphered . 5. When the admirall desireth to speake with any of the commanders hee will abroad a pendant Main yard arme Fore yard arme Cambridge Fayrfax In the Mayne topsayle yard arme for the Dreadnought Fore topsayle yard arme ...
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... heere , together with the Souernign , which is vnprouided . Wee heare of none in the riuer of Thames ; nor how the fort at Sheerenesse is fortified or manned . I am sure it was butt in meane case when I was at it in January . To treat ...
... heere , together with the Souernign , which is vnprouided . Wee heare of none in the riuer of Thames ; nor how the fort at Sheerenesse is fortified or manned . I am sure it was butt in meane case when I was at it in January . To treat ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
afterwards agayne beleeve blesse BODL booke Browne's butt Captain castle church citty cosen daughter Browne dayes DEAR SONNE desire discourse diuers divers Duch Duke Edward Browne England English Fairfax farre France French garden giue glad Golden Balls handsome haue heare hee hath heere hill HONOURED FATHER hope horses howse Hungary journey king lady lately Latin letter litle London Lord loving father miles morning mother neere night noble Norfolk Norwich obedient sonne observed ouer Paris pray present probably putt RAWL received Religio Medici returne riuer Salisburie Court sayd sayth sent shee shippe side Sir John Hobart Sir Thomas Browne sister SLOAN statuas stones Tangier thereof things tooke towne uery unto Venice Vienna vnto wee saw weeke wich WILLIAM DUGDALE write writt Yarmouth
Passagens conhecidas
Página lxxxv - That there were such creatures as witches, he made no doubt at all. For, first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Página xxx - Socrates warmed his doubtful spirits against that cold potion ; and Cato, before he durst give the fatal stroke, spent part of the night in reading the immortality of Plato, thereby confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt. It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
Página lxxxiii - ... he conceived, that these swooning fits were natural, and nothing else but that they call the mother, but only heightened to a great excess by the subtilty of the devil, cooperating with the malice of these which we term witches, at whose instance he doth these villainies.
Página lxiii - Tis my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved enigmas and riddles of the Trinity, with incarnation and resurrection. I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian, certum est quia impossibile est.
Página xliv - They that knew no more of him than by the briskness of his writings, found themselves deceived in their expectation, when they came in his company, noting the gravity and sobriety of his aspect and conversation ; so free from loquacity or much talkativeness, that he was something difficult to be engaged in any discourse ; though when he was so, it was always singular, and never trite or vulgar.
Página xxvi - a lady," says Whitefoot, " of such symmetrical proportion to her worthy husband, both in the graces of her body and mind, that they seemed to come together by a kind of natural magnetism.
Página l - His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.
Página lxxxiii - That in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons, by conveying pins into them, and crooked, as these pins were, with needles and nails. And his opinion was, That the devil, in such cases, did work upon the bodies of men and women, upon a natural foundation...
Página xlii - Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him : for the Lord hath created him.
Página xxxii - ... produce to the world an object of wonder to which nature had contributed little. To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the frogs of Homer, the gnat and the bees of Virgil, the butterfly of Spenser, the shadow of Wowerus, and the quincunx of Browne.