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" The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on: for the other, I use it but like my Globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. "
Some Outlines of the Religion of Experience: A Book for Laymen and the ... - Page 181
by Horace James Bridges - 1916 - 275 pages
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Religio medici. To which is added, sir Digby's Observations. Also critical notes

sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 pages
...like my globe, and turn it round fometimes for my recreation. Men that look upon my outfide, perufing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I - am above Atlas's moulders. The r earth is a point not only in refpect of the heavens above us, but of • that heavenly...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...regard is myself; it is tHe microcostne of mine own frame, that I cast mine eye on : for th'e other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...regard is myself; it is the microcosme 6f mine own frame, that 1 cast mine eye on : for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point, not only in respect 6f the heavens above us, but of that...
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Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...I regard is myself, it is the microcosm of mine own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial...
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...regard is myself; it is the microcosm of mine own frame, that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne

English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...regard is myself; it is the microcosm of mine own frame, that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 59

English literature - 1834 - 560 pages
...regard is myself. It ' is the microcosm of mine own frame that I cast mine eye on ; ' for the other, I use it, but like my globe, and turn it round ' sometimes...fortunes, do err in my altitude, ' for I am above Atlas his shoulders.'— (Here follows the high excuse for this lofty self-exaltation.) — ' The earth...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on : for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas's shoulders.2 The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on: for the other, 1 1 use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my i recreation. Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my...
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The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Volume 1

Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 326 pages
...The world that I regard is myself. It is mine own frame that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude, for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that...
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