The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3

Aristoteles nullum animal nisi æstu recedente expirare affirmat: observatum id multum in Gallico Oceano et duntaxat in Homine comertum, lib. 2. cap. 101.

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Auris pars pendula Lobus dicitur, non omnibus ea pars est auribus; non enim iis qui noctu nati sunt, sed qui interdiu, maxima ex parte. Com. in Aristot. de Animal. lib. 1.

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According to the Egyptian Hieroglyphick.

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Turkish History.

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In the Poet Dante his Discription.

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De Morbis Puerorum.

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Morta, the Deity of Death or Fate.

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When Men's Faces are drawn with Resemblance to some other Animals, the Italians call it, to be drawn in Caricatura.

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Ulmus de usu barbæ humanæ.

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The Life of a Man is threescore and ten.

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See Picotus de Rheumatismo.

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His upper and lower Jaw being solid, and without distinct Rows of Teeth.

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Twice tell over his Teeth, never live to threescore Years.

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Ἀσφαλέστατος καὶ ῥήιστος, securissima et facillima. Hippoc. Pro Febre quartana raro sonat campana.

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So A. F.

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Cardan in his Encomium Podagræ reckoneth this among the Dona Podagræ, that they are deliver’d thereby from the Phthysis and Stone in the Bladder.

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Hippoc. de Insomniis.

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Tabes maxime contingunt ab anno decimo octavo ad trigesimum quintum, Hippoc.

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A sound Child cut out of the Body of the Mother.

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Natos ad flumina primum deserimus sævoque gelu duramus et undis.

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Julii Cæsaris Scaligeri, quod fuit. Joseph. Scaliger in vita patris.

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Summum nec metuas diem nec optes.

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Who upon some Accounts, and Tradition, is said to have lived 30 Years after he was raised by our Saviour. Baronius.

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In the Speech of Vulteius in Lucan, animating his Souldiers in a great Struggle to kill one another. Decernite Lethum et metus omnis abest, cupias quodcunque necesse est. All Fear is over, do but resolve to die, and make your Desires meet Necessity.

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Wisdom, cap. iv.

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Through the Pacifick Sea, with a constant Gale from the East.

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Who is said to have castrated himself.

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Ira furor brevis est.

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See Arist. Ethicks Chapt. of Magnanimity.

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Holy, Holy, Holy.

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Even when the Days are shortest; alluding to the Tower of Oblivion mentioned by Procopius, which was the Name of a Tower of Imprisonment among the Persians: whosoever was put therein he was as it were buried alive, and it was Death for any but to name it.

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Matthew xi.

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Ovation, a petty and minor kind of Triumph.

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Sir Thomas being then Knighted.

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A Burning Mountain in Island.

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See Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial: or, A Discourse of the Sepulchral Urnes lately found in Norfolk, 8vo. Lond. printed 1658.

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Vid. Licet. de Lucernis.

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Ovation, a petty and minor kind of Triumph.

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Who is said to have Castrated himself.

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Ecclesiasticus.

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Luke.

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Optimi malorum pessimi bonorum.

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Even when the Days are shortest.

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Alluding unto the Tower of Oblivion mentioned by Procopius, which was the name of a Tower of Imprisonment among the Persians: whoever was put therein was as it were buried alive, and it was death for any but to name him.

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See Aristotle’s Ethicks, chapter of Magnanimity.

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Holy, holy, holy.

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Matthew xi.

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As Alexander the Great did.

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Hic niger est, hunc tu Romane caveto. Horace.

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As Socrates did. Athens a place of Learning and Civility.

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Astræa Goddess of justice and consequently of all virtue.

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Cerebrum Jovis, for a delicious bit.

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Metellus his riotous Pontifical Supper, the great variety whereat is to be seen in Macrobius.

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Nero in his flight. Sueton.

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Caldæ gelidæque minister.

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In Tabula Smaragdina.

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Lewis the Eleventh. Qui nescit dissimulare nescit Regnare.

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Ipse ego, nam memini, Trojani in tempore belliPanthoides Euphorbus eram.

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Who comforted himself that he should there converse with the old Philosophers.

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Mandelslo.

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Primusque dies dedit extremum.

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Demito naufragium, mors mihi munus erit.

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Plutarch.

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Pummel, wherein he is said to have carried something, whereby upon a struggle or despair he might deliver himself from all misfortunes.

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Solyman. Turkish history.

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Linea recta brevissima.

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Arbor Goa de Ruyz, or ficus Indica, whose branches send down shoots which root in the ground, from whence there successively rise others, till one Tree becomes a wood.

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Ἐπιχαιρεκακία.

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Sapiens dominabitur Astris.

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Adam thought to be created in the State of Man, about thirty years Old.

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Attalus made a Garden which contained only venemous plants.

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Pompeios Juvenes Asia atque Europa, sed ipsum Terra tegit Libyes.

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Don Sebastian de Covarrubias, writ 3 Centuries of moral Emblems in Spanish. In the 88th of the second Century he sets down two Faces averse, and conjoined Janus-like; the one a Gallant Beautiful Face, the other a Death’s-Head Face, with this Motto out of Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Quid fuerim quid simque vide.

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A Book so intitled wherein are sundry horrid accounts.

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Tu miser exclamas, ut Stentora vincere possis,Vel potius quantum Gradivus Homericus. Juvenal.

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A soft tongue breaketh the bones. Proverbs 25. 15.

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Which after many hundred years was found burning under ground, and went out as soon as the air came to it.

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Jovem lapidem jurare.

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See the oath of Sultan Osman in his life, in the addition to Knolls his Turkish history.

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Colendo fidem jurant.– Curtius.

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Vitam nemo acciperet si daretur scientibus.– Seneca.

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Job 38.

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Undecipherable in the original.