 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 572 lehte
...fossilium. THOMAS BROWNE. Norwich, 1665. [ON DREAMS.] [H«. SLOAN. 1874, fol. 118, 120.] HALF our days we pass in the shadow of the earth ; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. A good part of our sleep is peered out with visions and fantastical... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 578 lehte
...fossilium, THOMAS BROWNE. Norwich, 1665. [ON DREAMS.] [MS. SLOAN. 1874, fol. 112, 120.] HALF our days we pass in the shadow of the earth ; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. A good part of our sleep is peered out with visions and fantastical... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1839 - 320 lehte
...relation to death perhaps being their chief inducement to do so. " Half our days," says Sir Thomas Browne, " we pass in the shadow of the earth ; and...brother of death extracteth a third part of our lives." In the state of perfect sleep the iris will not contract on the approach of light — the skin has... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1840 - 800 lehte
...in its medical relations, has even yet received all the notice it deserves. Much * " Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death extracteth a third part of our lives," saj-s Sir Thomas Browne ; a writer whose genius and eloquence give him a high place in English literature,... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1841 - 412 lehte
...and blend themselves deeply and strongly with every part of our mental existence." " Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death extracteth a third part of our lives." FRITZ HAZELL,— A TEMPERANCE TALE. f'anlinui'd from page 240. In a few days the clothes were finished,... | |
 | 1847 - 726 lehte
...living condition, sleep and death demand from us a brief notice. " Half of our days," says Sir Thomas Browne, " we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death extracleth a third part of our lives." There is no analogy in truth between these two states, which... | |
 | 1847 - 724 lehte
...living condition, sleep and death demand from us a brief notice. " Half of our days," says Sir Thomas Browne, " we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death extracleth a third part of our lives." There is no analogy in truth between these two states, which... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1852 - 356 lehte
...further, how singularly shadowing forth to our conception the greater and more lasting * " Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death extracteth a third part of our lives," says Sir Thomas Browne; a writer whose genius and eloquence give him a high place in English literature,... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 1046 lehte
...fossilium. THOMAS BBOWUE. Xoricick, 1665. [ON DEEAMS.] [MS. SLOAN. 1874, fol. 112, 120.] HALF our days we pass in the shadow of the earth ; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. A good part of our sleep is peered out with visions and fantastical... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 580 lehte
...fossilium. THOMAS BBOWITE. Norwich, 1665. [ON DEEAMS.] [MS. SLOAN. 1874, fol. 112, 120.] HALF our days we pass in the shadow of the earth ; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. A good part of our sleep is peered out with visions and fantastical... | |
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HALF our days we pass in the shadow of the earth ; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. 
