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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Thomas Brown

 

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Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Thomas Brown: "I took an axe of Jones the same evening afterwards; that was on the Tuesday evening and on Wednesday there was a handbill mentioning these things; I was going up to Bow-street..."

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Brown      Print: Handbill

  

Paracelsus  : 

"In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage of Paracelsus that he declare 'I never could pass ... without an asterisk or annotation.'"

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Browne      Print: Book

 

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