Hours in a Library, Vol. 2 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

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"Let me not injure the felicity of others," says Sir Thomas Browne in a suppressed passage of the Religio Medici, "if I say that I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty into riches, adversity into prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Achilles; fortune hath not one place to hit me." Perhaps on second thoughts, Sir Thomas felt that the phrase savoured of that presumption which is supposed to provoke the wrath of Nemesis; and at any rate, he, of all men, is the last to be taken too literally at his word. He is a humourist to the core, and is here writing dramatically. There are many things in this book, so he tells us, "delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, ... and therefore also many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason."
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