 ... same with that of the ancients ; since what horns soever they be that pass among us, they are not the horns of one, but several animals : since many in common use and high esteem are no horns at all ; since if they were true horns, yet might their...  Life and times of Ambroise Paré, 1510-1590 - Page 113by Ambroise Paré - 1921 - 297 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1835 - 592 pages
...are not the horns of one, but several animals : since many in common use and high esteem are no horns at all ; since if they were true horns, yet might...too wise to learn) it is not too late to consider. * Expulsive of poisons. CHAPTER XXIV. That all Animals of the Land are in their kind in the Sea. THAT... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...are not the horns of one, but several animals : since many in common use and high esteem are no horns at all ; since if they were true horns, yet might...already instructed some, and to wisdom (which is never t too wise to learn) it is not too late to consider. f * Expulsive of poisons. CHAPTER XXIV. That all... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 582 pages
...are not the horns of one, but several animals : since many in common use and high esteem are no horns at all ; since if they were true horns, yet might...too wise to learn), it is not too late to consider. * Expulsive of poisons. CHAPTER XXIV. That all Animals of the Land are in their kind in the Sea. THAT... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 568 pages
...are not the horns of one, but several animals : since many in common use and high esteem are no horns at all ; since if they were true horns, yet might...too wise to learn), it is not too late to consider. * Expulsive of poisons. CHAPTEE XXIY. That all Animals of the Land arc in their kind in the Sea. THAT... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1904 - 426 pages
...there were true Horns, yet might their vertues be questioned ; Since though we allowed some vertues, yet were not others to be received ; with what security...already instructed some, and to wisdom (which is never to wise to learn) it is not too late to consider. CHAPTER XXIV That all Animals of the Land, are in... | |
 | Nina Cust - Europe - 1909 - 612 pages
...it still flourished. ' With what security a man may rely on this remedy, he remarks caustically, ' the mistress of fools hath already instructed some,...too wise to learn) it is not too late to consider.' In this matter, indeed, the seventeenth century was divided by no wide gulf from the century in which... | |
 | John Webster - English literature - 1927 - 340 pages
...horne. This fabulous antidote is discussed at delightful length in Sir T. Browne, Pseudodoxia, 1n. 23. ("With what security a man may rely on this remedy,...too wise to learn) it is not too late to consider.") The idea that drinking-cups made of unicorn's horn would prevent poisoning is as old as the first mention... | |
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