A letter to Sir Thomas Browne.

  • Johnson, Lionel, 1867-1902.
Date:
1898
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Credit: A letter to Sir Thomas Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A LETTtR TO SIR THOMAS BROWNE. Religio Medici and other Essays.” Edited with -“n.by i>- Lloyd Roberts, M.D., i.K.L.P. (London: Smith, Elder and Co. os. od. net,) ^■ that did sometime dwell at large upon the congruity of event, whereby those tour rich and eminent pieces were brought forth anew for the delectation of modernity by a brother in art, Dr. Greenhill, of Oxford, now departed, and doubtless with you in blessed neighborhood to Luke, the beloved physician ” ■ Ido now commend to your good- i .will a second ^Esculapian brother, D. Lloyd Roberts, of Manchester, who hath right worthily rendered unto you the like true and oval service. For I question not but that the confraternities of learned men upon earth have their counterparts and continuities in heaven; and that he who did terrestrially fel- low some good profession or art, loseth not in ce.estial felicity all gust thereof. Wherefore, though beneath the healing leaves of the Tree o Life, and within the permanent embrace be no sickness, and the beatified physician be cast out of employ, yet shall ?e sometimes direct his meditations ' them £ /ifbT1 •? ?is Wr world, wishing DiomedJ. b Gr Gkucus “to bis worthy uilheV-1! hum5Ui afd m°rtal affairs, so is it nious thi .T9 ? tho cruclite and the ingc- th£e le r-g th® fruits of their l^or ] , S^at shit nngs, veerings, and vicissi- Cometh tkUdf5^ei!tin‘° aS that one Seneratioa C? & ttSy r JS-iiST* ~ £7te t 7 security of position. To cm,me- ate the exemplif10rs of vour fame were a pStSlni?pnrflui^: yet “ay 1 lwt wholly vom-7?7‘a inieUtl,0n of thfc',n- Of such was grave chronicler and fellow Pembroch-