 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 412 pages
...would found to common ears like a fable : for the world, I count it not an inn, but an hofpital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myfelf; it is the microcofm of mine own frame that I caft mine eye on; for the other, I ufe it but... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...ш would sound to common ears like a fable. For i world, I count it not an inn but a hospital, and How he hath cousen'd them, that him would have be i gard is myself ; it is the microcosm of my own frar that I can cast mine eye on — for the other... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not ал inn but a hospital, and ges ; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the...there, and painted Stoa next : There shalt thou h can cast mine eye on — for the other I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...and would sound to common cars 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 mine eye on — for the other I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...would sound to common years 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 Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 584 pages
...would sound to common years 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 Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 580 pages
...that he was egotistical is merely to say that he was writing about himself : to use his own words, " The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast my eye on." But this egotism, to conclude with the remarks of one of his most brilliant admirers, " is always the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 584 pages
...that he was egotistical is merely to say that he was writing about himself: to use his own words, " The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I oast my eye on." But this egotism, to conclude with the remarks of one of his most brilliant admirers,... | |
 | Antiquarian booksellers - 1856 - 696 pages
...Characters, first printed in 1C28. Sir Thomas Browne, in his well known Religio Medici, says — ' For the world, I count it not an Inn, but an Hospital...Nathaniel Wanley compiled a volume, of which the title ae ' Wanley's Wonders ' is a household word to thousands ; entitled, Wonders of the Little World, or... | |
 | Willis's Current notes - 1856 - 110 pages
...Characters, first printed in 1628. Sir Thomas Browne, in his well known Religio Medici, says — ' For the world, I count it not an Inn, but an Hospital...find out how I am a ' microcosm,' a little world. 70 71 In the Gentleman's Magazine, 1794, p. 599, is the following poetical version of this inscription.... | |
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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. 
