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A29861 Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths by Thomas Browne. Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682. 1646 (1646) Wing B5159; ESTC R1093 377,301 406

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what_o be_v his_o end_n or_o upon_o what_o occasion_n although_o it_o be_v not_o altogether_o assure_v yet_o that_o his_o memory_n and_o worthy_a name_n shall_v live_v no_o man_n will_v deny_v nor_o grateful_a scholar_n doubt_n and_o if_o according_a to_o the_o elegy_n of_o solon_n a_o man_n may_v be_v only_o say_v to_o be_v happy_a after_o he_o be_v dead_a and_o cease_v to_o be_v in_o the_o 〈◊〉_d capacity_n of_o 〈◊〉_d or_o if_o according_a unto_o his_o own_o ethic_n sense_n be_v not_o essential_a unto_o felicity_n but_o a_o man_n may_v be_v happy_a without_o the_o apprehension_n thereof_o sure_o in_o that_o sense_n he_o be_v pyramidal_o happy_a nor_o can_v he_o ●ver_o perish_v but_o in_o the_o euripe_n of_o ignorance_n or_o till_o the_o torrent_n of_o barbarism_n overwhelm_v all_o a_o like_a conceit_n there_o pass_v of_o mel●sigenes_n alias_o home●_n the_o father_n poet_n that_o he_o pine_v away_o upon_o the_o riddle_n of_o the_o fisherman_n but_o herodotus_n who_o write_v his_o 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