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 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...flowers or fruit, as St. Aug. reports. without further travel I can do in the cosmography of myself: we carry with us the wonders we seek without us ' : there is all Africa and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium,... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...and neglected pieces of nature, which without further travel I can do in the cosmography of myself. We carry with us the wonders we seek without us. There is all Africa and her prodigies in us. We are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...and neglected pieces of nature, which without further travel I can do in the cosmography of myself. We carry with us the wonders we seek without us. There is all Africa and her prodigies in us. We are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...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 us : there is all Africa and her prodigies in us. We are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies wisely learns, in a compendium,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 424 pages
...and neglected pieces of nature ; which without further travel I can do in the cosmography of myself; we carry with us the wonders we seek without us. There is all Africa and her prodigies in us ; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Great Britain - 1841 - 306 pages
...gentlemen and young ladies, if they write at all, write greatly about themselves. A he says, " with i/s the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa 'and her prodigies in us, &c.' " It is not because, as Dr. Johnson imagines, Browne thought himself distinguished from all the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1844 - 320 pages
...and neglected pieces of nature, which without further travel I can do in the cosmography of myself. We carry with us the wonders we seek without us ; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us ; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies, wisely learns in a compendium... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...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 us : there is all Africa and her prodigies in us. We are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which 9 What wise hand teac!tet?t, <fcc.j This sentence... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 584 pages
...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 us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us. We are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which 9 What wise hand teacbeth, <fcc.] This sentence... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1856 - 386 pages
...neglected pieces of nature, which, without further travel, I can do, in the cosmography of myself. We carry with us the wonders we seek without us. There is all Africa and her prodigies in us. We are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium... | |
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