See also:SIR See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
BROWNE (1605-1682)
, See also:English author and physician, was See also:born in See also:London, on the 19th of See also:October 16o5
.
He was admitted as a See also:scholar of See also:Winchester school in 1616, and matriculated at Broadgates See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (See also:Pembroke See also:College), See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, in 1623, where he graduated B.A. in See also:January 1626
.
He took the further degree of M.A. in 1629, studied See also:medicine, and practised for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Oxfordshire
.
Between 163o and 1633 he See also:left See also:England, travelled in See also:Ireland, See also:France and See also:Italy, and on his way See also:home received the degree of M.D. at the university of See also:Leiden
.
He returned to London in 1634, and, after a See also:short See also:residence at Shipden Hall, near See also:Halifax, settled in practice at See also:Norwich in 1637
.
He married in 1641 Dorothy Mileham
.
Their eldest son, See also:Edward, became See also:president of the Royal College of Physicians, and glimpses of their happy See also:family See also:life are obtainable in the fragmentary See also:correspondence contained in See also:Simon Wilkin's edition
.
In 1642 a copy of his Religio See also:Medici, which he describes as " a private exercise directed to myself," was printed from one of his See also:MSS. without his knowledge, and reviewed by See also:Sir Kenelm See also:Digby in Observations
.
.
.
(1643)
.
The See also:interest aroused by this edition compelled See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne to put forth a correct version (1643) of the See also:work, in which letters between Digby and Brownewere included
.
The See also:book was probably written as See also:early as 1635, for he describes himself as still under See also:thirty
.
In 1646 he published Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Enquiries into very many commonly received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths (1646), and in 1658 Ilydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall; or, a discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in See also:Norfolk
.
Together with the See also:Garden of See also:Cyrus, or the quincunciall, See also:lozenge, or See also:net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, and mystically considered
.
With Sundry observations (1658)
.
These four See also:works were all that he published, though several tracts, notably the See also:Christian Morals' intended as a continuation of Religio Medici, were prepared for publication, and appeared posthumously
.
In 1671 he received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood from See also:Charles II. on his visit to Norwich
.
He began a correspondence with See also:John See also:Evelyn in 1658
.
Very few of the letters are extant, but the diarist has left an See also:account of a visit to Browne (See also:Diary, 17th of October 1671)
.
He died in 1682 on his seventy-seventh birthday, and was buried at St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's, Mancroft, Norwich
.
His See also:coffin was accidentally broken in 184o, and his See also:skull is preserved in the museum of the Norwich See also:hospital
.
Browne's writings are among the few specimens of purely See also:literary work produced during a See also:period of See also:great See also:political excitement and discord
.
He remained to all See also:appearance placidly indifferent to the struggle going on around him
.
His first book, appeared in the See also:year of the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War; Pseudodoxia Epidemica in the See also:critical year of 1646; and Hydriotaphia, the reflections on the shortness of human life inspired by the unearthing of some funeral urns, on the See also:eve of the Restoration
.
A mind as aloof as his is a psychological curiosity, and its peculiarities are faithfully reflected in the See also:form and See also:matter of his works
.
His display of erudition, his copious citations from authorities, his See also:constant use of See also:metaphor and See also:analogy, and his elaborate diction, are See also:common qualities of the writers of the 17th See also:century, but Browne stands apart from his contemporaries by See also:reason of the See also:peculiar See also:cast of his mind
.
Imbued with the Platonic See also:mysticism which taught him to look on this See also:world as only the See also:image, the See also:shadow of an invisible See also:system, he regarded the whole of experience as only See also:food for contemplation
.
Nothing is too great or too small for him; all finds a See also:place in the universe of being, which he seems to regard almost from the position of an outsider
.
He did not speculate systematically on the problems of existence, but he meditates repeatedly on the outward and visible signs of mortality, and on what lies beyond See also:death
.
Of Browne, as of the greatest writers, it is true that the See also:style is the See also:man
.
The form of his thought is as peculiar and remarkable as the matter; the two, indeed, react on one another
.
Much of the'quaintness of his style, no doubt, depends on the excessive employment of latinized words, many of which have failed to justify their existence; but the peculiarities of his vocabulary do not explain the unique See also:character of his See also:writing, which is appreciated to-See also:day as much as ever
.
The Religio Medici was a See also:puzzle to his contemporaries, and it is still hard to reconcile its contradictions
.
A Latin See also:translation appeared at Leiden in 1644, and it was widely read on the See also:continent, being translated subsequently into Dutch, See also:French and See also:German
.
In See also:Paris it was issued in the belief that Browne was really a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, but in See also:Rome the authorities thought otherwise, and the book was placed on the See also:Index Expurgatorius
.
It is the See also:confession of a mind keen and sceptical in some aspects, and credulous in others
.
Browne professes to be absolutely See also:free from heretical opinions, but asserts the right to be guided by his own reason in cases where no precise guidance is given either by Scripture or by See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church teaching
.
" I love," he says, " to lose myself in a See also:mystery, to pursue my reason to an 0, Altitudol" The Pseudodoxia Epidemica, written in a more See also:direct and See also:simple style than is usual with Browne, is a wonderful storehouse of out-of-the-way facts and scraps of erudition,
1 Ed
.
John Jeffery, See also:archdeacon of Norwich, 1716
.
The dignified " See also:Letter to a Friend, upon the occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend " (written about 1672, pr
.
169o) has been generally supposed to be a preliminary See also:sketch for Christian Morals, but Dr W
.
A
.
Greenhill thinks it was written later
.
exhibiting a singular mixture of credulity and shrewdness
.
Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas evidently takes delight in discussing the wildest fables
.
That he himself was by no means free from superstition is proved by the fact that the condemnation of two unfortunate See also:women, Amy Duny and See also:Rose Cullender, for See also:witchcraft at Norwich in 1664 was aided by his professional See also:evidence
.
The Garden of Cyrus is a continued See also:illustration of one See also:quaint conceit
.
The whole universe is ransacked for examples of the Quincunx, and he discovers, as See also:Coleridge says, " quincunxes in See also:heaven above, quincunxes in See also:earth below, quincunxes in the mind of man, quincunxes in tones, in optic nerves, in roots of trees, in leaves, in everything!" But the whole strength of his See also:genius and the wonderful See also:charm of his style are to be sought in the Urnburial, the concluding See also:chapter of which, for richness of imagery and majestic pomp of diction, can hardly be paralleled in the English See also:language
.
For anything at all resembling it we must turn to the finest passages of See also:Jeremy See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor or of See also:Milton's See also:prose writings
.
In 1684 appeared a collection of Certain See also:Miscellany Tracts (ed
.
'See also:Tenison), and in 1712 See also:Posthumous Works of the learned Sir Thomas Browne
.
The first collected edition of Browne's works appeared in 1686
.
It is said to have been edited by Dr, afterwards See also:Archbishop Tenison
.
Sir Thomas Browne's Works, including his Life and Correspondence, were carefully edited by Simon Wilkin in 1835-1836
.
Among See also:modern reprints may be mentioned Dr W
.
A Greenhill's See also:editions in the " See also:Golden See also:Treasury " See also:series of the Religio Medici, Letter to a Friend and Christian Morals (1881), with an admirable See also:bibliographical See also:note on the complicated subject of the numerous editions of the Religio Medici; of the Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus (1896), completed by Mr E
.
H
.
See also:Marshall; a See also:complete edition for the English Library, edited by Mr Charles Sayle (1904, &c.)
.
Browne's interest in See also:bird-See also:lore is noted by Evelyn, and some Notes and Letters on the Natural See also:History of Norfolk were collected from his MSS. in the See also:Sloane Collection, and edited by Thomas See also:Southwell in 1902
.
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