Religio Medici

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Religio Medici.-Part E.

Philosophy of Cookery

Toleration of Foreigners

Love of Mankind

The Rabble and Gentility

Natural Nobility

Perfect Charity

Significance of Physiognomy

Varieties in the Human Countenance

Further Considerations on Charity

Picture of Disputation

Statesmen and Authors

National Prejudice

Admiration of the Past

Theory of Friendship

Mysteries of Affection

Policy of the Devil

Pride and Vanity-Great Linguists

Two Opinions : one for show, the other for use

Author's Notion of Marriage

Freedom from sordid Desires

No Man wholly Bad

Companions of Solitude

Self-Knowledge

Happiness of Dreams

Infacetiousness of the Author

Men prophetic at their Death

The Author's Prayer

His Notion of Avarice

Aristotle's Idea of Liberality

Love of God and our Neighbour

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Bigby's Observations on the Religio Medici.

Reading in Bed

Following of the Church

Notion on Immortality

Belief in Impossibilities approved of

Ideas of Eternity

Remarks on the Trinity

Ideas of First Matter

Remarks on Aristotle and Galen

White's Dialogue de Mundi

Toads, Serpents, and Ephemerides of Devils

Stoicism of Epictetus

Transformations of a Renegade

Witches, Magic, and Hermetical Philosophers

Speculations on Light

Plotinus on long Life

Bleeding of the Murdered at the sight of the Murderer

Perishableness of the World

Parallel of Life and Death

Remarks on Egotism

Doctrine of future Rewards and Punishments

Love of God

Salvation of the Heathen

Panegyric of Sir Thomas Browne

Theory of Identity

Doctrine of Forms

Affectation of Sir Thomas Browne

Reprehension of Scepticism

Uses of Study

Force of Habit

Making Love out of Stephanus's Thesaurus ...
Conclusion

Postscript
Hydriotaphia; or, Arn Burial.

Introduction by the Editor

Epistle Dedicatory

arn Burial.—Chapter 2.

Shallowness of Graves

Antiquity of Burning the Dead

Story of Hercules and Argeois

Extent of the Practice of Burning

Opinions of Thales and Heraclitus

Practice of the Brahmins and Druids

Egyptian Tombs and Mummies

Savage Customs of the Scythians

Practice of the early Christians

Arn Burial.-Chapter EE.

Urns found at Walsingham

Account of Ustrinai

Practices of the Romans

Population of ancient Britain

Norman, Saxon, and Danish Coins

Ancient Interment of Coins

Sepulchral Lamps

Cessation of the Practice of Burning the Dead

Abstracting of Rings from the Fingers of the Dying

Funerals of the Ancient Britons

Customs of the Northern Nations

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Wrn=Burial, Chapter EFI.

Tombs of the Jews and Egyptians
Description of Sepulchral Urns
Funeral Urn of Patroclus
Laws of the Twelve Tables
Superstitious Legend
Tomb of King Childerick
Disregard of Human Life among the Ancients
Jewish Hypogæum at Rome
Cenotaph of Euripides
Preservation of Corpses
Salamander's Wool
Animal Lamp
Burying in Cities

by the Way-side

Phænicean and Megarean practice

Persian and Roman Corpses

Disquisition on Skuks

Tombs of the Patriarchs

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