The Works Of Sir Thomas Browne Vol 2 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Vol. 2 The seventh book; the particular part concluded. Of popular and received tenets, chiefly historical and some deduced from the Holy Scriptures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Vol. 2: Including His Life and Correspondence From this jiis. Note, it is evident that the work was widely circulated while in manuscript, some years earlier than 1641 or it could not have been attributed to Dr. Read, who died in that year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Vol. 2: Containing the Three Last Books of Vulgar Errors, Religio Medici, and the Garden of Cyrus Andfirst, dc] These singular birds are said to fish in companies; they form a circle on the water, and having by the flapping of their huge wings, driven the terrified fish towards the centre, they suddenly dive all at once as by consent, and soon fill their immense pouches with their prey. In order subsequently to disgorge the contents, in feeding their young, they have only to press the pouch on their breast. This operation may very probably have given rise to the fable, that the pelican Opens her breast to nourish her young. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Vol. 3 Tract 8. Of languages, and particularly of the Saxon tongue; Tract 9. Of artificial hills, mounts, or burrows, in many parts of England; what they are, to what end raised, and by what nations; Tract 10. Of Troas, what place is meant by that name. Also of the situations of Sodom, Gomorrha, Admah, Zeboim, in the Red Sea; Tract 11. Of the answers of the oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Cr sus king of Lydia; Tract 12. A prophecy concerning the future state of several nations, in a letter written upon occasion of an old prophecy sent to the author from a friend, with a request that he would consider it; Tract 13. Musaeum Clausum, or Bibliotheca Abscondita; containing some remarkable books, antiquities, pictures, and rarities of several kinds, scarce or never seen by any man now living; Miscellanies: - viz. concerning the too nice curiosity of censuring the present, or judging into future dispensations; Upon reading Hudibras; An account of Island (alias Iceland, ) in the year 1662; Latin letters from Theodore Jonas, pastor of Hitterdale, in Iceland, to Dr. Browne, 1651, 1656, and 1664; Unpublished Papers; Fragment on Mummies (from transcript by Jas. Crossley, Esq.); De Peste(from MS. Sloan. No. 1827, fol. 44-48); A brief reply to several queries (Ib. 1827, fol. 49); Naval fights (Ib. 1827, fol. 59-60); Amico opus arduum meditanti (Ib. 1827, fol. 61-64); Naumachia (Ib. 1827, fol. 65-68) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from Sir Thomas Browne Sir Archibald Geikie, to Dr. Norman Moore, and to Dr. John Peile, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. The zoological pages have undergone the revision of Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell. Mr. James Fitzmaurice Kelly has read the proofs throughout, to their sub stantial advantage. For all this kindness I tender, once more, my warmest thanks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.