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Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682

"Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend"

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64. The period when the moon is in conjunction and obscured by the sun.
65. One of the judges of hell.
66. To select some great man for our ideal, and always to act as if he
was present with us. See Seneca, lib. i. Ep. 11.
67. Sir T. Browne seems to have made various experiments in this
subject. D'Israeli refers to it in his "Curiosities of Literature."
Dr Power, a friend of Sir T. Browne, with whom he corresponded,
fives a receipt for the process.
68. The celebrated Greek philosopher who taught that the sun was a
mass of heated stone, and various other astronomical doctrines.
Some critics say Anaxarchus is meant here.
69. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," lib. I. 254--
"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
And also Lucretius--
"Hic Acherusia fit stultorum denique vita."--iii. 1023.
70. Keck says here--"So did they all, as Lactantius has observed at
large.


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