The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IVH. G. Bohn, 1852 - Christianity |
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... Aristotle endeavours to prove that , in all motions of bodies , there is some point quiescent , and very elegantly expounds the fable of Atlas , who stood fixed , and bare up the heavens from falling , to be meant of the poles of the ...
... Aristotle endeavours to prove that , in all motions of bodies , there is some point quiescent , and very elegantly expounds the fable of Atlas , who stood fixed , and bare up the heavens from falling , to be meant of the poles of the ...
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... Aristotle and Galen concerning the Parts thereof : as also by a discovery of the Strange and marvellous Diseases , Symptomes , and Accidents of Man's Body . With a Refutation of Doctor Brown's Vulgar Errors , the Lord Bacon's Natural ...
... Aristotle and Galen concerning the Parts thereof : as also by a discovery of the Strange and marvellous Diseases , Symptomes , and Accidents of Man's Body . With a Refutation of Doctor Brown's Vulgar Errors , the Lord Bacon's Natural ...
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... ab orbe condito , ad nostra usque tempora , et veterum et recentium monumentis proditi sunt , elenchus alphabeticus , " & c . — Br . b 6 dictionary and real fallacies , Aristotle and logicians CHAP . IV . ] 29 OR FALSE DEDUCTION .
... ab orbe condito , ad nostra usque tempora , et veterum et recentium monumentis proditi sunt , elenchus alphabeticus , " & c . — Br . b 6 dictionary and real fallacies , Aristotle and logicians CHAP . IV . ] 29 OR FALSE DEDUCTION .
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Sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. b 6 dictionary and real fallacies , Aristotle and logicians make in number six , but we observe that men are most commonly deceived by four thereof : those are , petitio principii ; a dicto secundum quid ...
Sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. b 6 dictionary and real fallacies , Aristotle and logicians make in number six , but we observe that men are most commonly deceived by four thereof : those are , petitio principii ; a dicto secundum quid ...
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... Aristotle the most of any . Yet did not any of these conceive themselves infallible , or set down their dictates as verities irrefragable : but when they either deliver their own inventions , or reject other men's opinions , they ...
... Aristotle the most of any . Yet did not any of these conceive themselves infallible , or set down their dictates as verities irrefragable : but when they either deliver their own inventions , or reject other men's opinions , they ...
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