Thomas Browne

Among the personal duties that the book identifies, is that of maintaining your own lawful freedom as the indispensable condition of the whole moral life. But freedom must be exercised properly, and Cobbe...

Browne had made his Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents [sic] and commonly presumed truths (addressed not to ordinary, mis-informed people but to men of learning) almost an encyclopaedia of seventeenth-century misconceptions...

MG 's preface begins by invoking Sir Thomas Browne , who said he drew his theology from two books: the one written by God and the one written by God's servant Nature. She gives many...

The title page quotes Sir Thomas Browne and Hans Christian Andersen 's The Snow Queen, and the book is loosely based on the fairy tale. The autobiographical heroine, Amy, is an aspiring writer working...

This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR 's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible...

EM followed In Colston's Days with In the East Country with Sir Thomas Browne, of which the Tauchnitz edition was called In the East Country with Sir Thomas Browne, Kt., physician and philosopher of...

CFC 's eighth Small Book was titled An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors. She used the pseudonym Thomas Brown Redivivus, in homage to Sir Thomas Browne 's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646 (often...

She rewrote the novel in some downtime after Wallace's heart attack in 1954. The revised version was chronologically straightforward and Ellen was no longer a writer. Another change in plot concerned Ellen's broken engagement. Instead...

Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans