Religio medici.

  • Thomas Browne
Date:
1831
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Credit: Religio medici. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    common harmony, and keeping in tetters those powers, whose rebellions once masters, might be the ruin of all. VIII. I thank God, amongst those millions of vices I do inherit and hold from Adam, I have escaped one, and that a mortal enemy to charity, the first and father sin, not only of man but of the devil, pride; a vice whose name is comprehended in a monosyllable, but in its nature not circum- scribed with a world: I have escaped it in a condi- tion that can hardly avoid it: those petty acquisi- tions and reputed perfections that advance and elevate the conceits of other men, add no feather s unto mine. I have seen a grammarian tower and plume himself over a single line in Horace, and shew more pride in the construction of one ode, than the author in the composure of the whole bookx. For my own part, besides the jargon and patois of several provinces, I understand no less than six languages; yet I protest I have no higher conceit of myself, than had our fathers before the confusion of Babel, when there was but one language in the 1 Movent mihi stomachum grammatistce quidam, qui cum duns tenuerint vocabulorum origines ita se ostentant, ita venditant, ita circumferunt jactabundi, ut pres ipsis pro nihilo habendos phitoso- phos arbitrentur. Picus Mirand. in Ep. acl Hermol. Barb, quae exstat lib. nono Epist. Politian. Garsio quisque duas postquam scit jungerc par es, Sic stat, sic loquitur, velut omnes noveril artes.
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