| American essays - 1874 - 792 pages
...problems ; they are provocative of psychological investigations. Sir Thomas Browne Buys, " The world I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast my eye on ; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation." It is... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1859 - 752 pages
...would sound to common ears like a fable. " For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that...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.... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 584 pages
...mankind is man." " For the world," says Sir Thomas Browne, " I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that...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... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 584 pages
...mankind is man." " For the world," says Sir Thomas Browne, " I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place^ not to live, but to die in. The world that...; 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... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1862 - 584 pages
...mankind is man." " For the world," says Sir Thomas Browne, " I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that...; 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... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1862 - 290 pages
...would sound to common ears like a fable : for the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that 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... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1868 - 438 pages
...and would sound to common care like a fable.* For the world I count it not an inn but a hospital, and a place not to live but to die in. The world that...myself, it is the microcosm of my own frame, that I can cast my eye on—for the other I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pages
...would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that...regard is myself ; it is the microcosm of my own frame * " Cic. de Off.," 1. iii. G that I cast mine eye on : for the other, I use it but like my globe, and... | |
| Horace Smith - 1869 - 392 pages
...the following passage from Milton :— " For the world, I count it not as an inn but a hospital ; and a place not to live but to die in. 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... | |
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