Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall by Sir Thomas Browne

Author:Sir Thomas Browne
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59017-503-3
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2012-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

[1] A Church Bell that tolls every day at 6. and 12. of the Clocke, at the hearing wherof every one in what place soever either of house or street be-takes him to his prayer, which is commonly directed to the Virgin.

[2] In their quarrels with Pope Paul the fifth.

[3] That looseth itselfe in Greece and riseth again in Cilicie.

[4] A revolution of certaine thousand yeares when all things should returne unto their former estate and he be teaching again in his schoole as when he delivered this opinion.

[5] Deus est Sphæra cuius centrum ubique, circumferentia nullibi.

[6] γνῶθισεαυτόν nosce teipsum.

[7] Moses, Christ, and Mahomet.

[8] Post mortem nihil est, ipsaque mors nihil. Mors individua est noxia corpori, Nec patiens animæ—Toti morimur, nullaque pars manet Nostri—. Troad 399, etc.

[9] In Rabelais the French author.

[10] Matt. 27.5

[11] Pineda in his Monarchia Ecclesiastica quotes one thousand and fortie Authors. Gunnes, Printing, the Mariner’s Compass.

[12] Socrates

[13] Virgilius

[14] In his Oracle of Augustus.

[15] That lived without meat upon the smell of a Rose.

[16] Thereby is meant our good Angel appointed us from our nativity.

[17] Spiritus Domini incubabat acquis Gen. 1.

[18] Essentia rationalis immortalis.

[19] The Element of fire.

[20] A figure in Rethoricke where one word is inverted upon another.

[21] Who willed his friend not to bury him but to hang him up with a staffe in his hand to fright away the crowes.

[22] The Jewish computation for 50 yeares.

[23] The Planet of Saturne makes his revolution once in 30 yeares.

[24] A French word for Antickes.

[25] That time when the moone is in conjunction, and obscured by the Sun, the Astrologers call Horæ Combustæ.

[26] The Oracle of Apollo.

[27] In those dayes there shall come lyers and false prophets.

[28] Whereby men labour to prove the Pope Antichrist, from their names making up the number of the Beast.

[29] Calcination, a Chymicall terme for the reduction of a minerall into Powder.

[30] Chiron, a Centaure.

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