Religio medici : together with, A letter to a friend on the death of his intimate friend ; and, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne Kt. M.D. ; edited by Henry Gardiner.

  • Thomas Browne
Date:
1845
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Credit: Religio medici : together with, A letter to a friend on the death of his intimate friend ; and, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne Kt. M.D. ; edited by Henry Gardiner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Follow’d him clofe unto the caftle gate Of Nuremberg ; whom all the Ihows of ftate. Streets hang’d with arras, arches curious built. Loud-thundering cannons, columns richly gilt, Gray-headed fenate, and youth’s gallantife. Graced not fo much, as onely this device. Once, as this artift (more with mirth than meat) Feafted fome friends that he efteemed great. From under’s hand an iron fly flew out; Which having flown a perfeft round about. With weary wings return’d unto her mailer. And (as judicious) on his arm fhe plac’d her. O divine wit! that in the narrow womb Of a fmall fly, could find fuflicient room For all thofe fprings, wheels, counterpoife, and chains, Which flood in Head of life, and fpur, and reins.” Sixth Day of the Firji Week. See Hakewill’s Apologie, iii. io. i. Aul. Gell. x. 12. D. p. 38. Every living creature (£uLv) is poflefled of a foul ('J't’xA But all living creatures have not a foul exerciling the fame faculties (Suvot^eis). We may define all the faculties which can exifl in any living creature to be thefe : 1, the faculty of receiving nourifhment, SpeitriKrj. 2, the faculty of fenfation, aio-dynxi]. 3, the faculty of motion in place, x<vrr ■rttoj. 4, the faculty of impulfe, or defire, opexTixi). 5, the faculty of intelligence, StccvorjTixr). The firft is the loweft, and is prefent in all cafes: the foul