"Joyn Sense and Reason, and Experiment unto Speculation, and so give life unto Embryon Truths, and Verities yet in their Chaos."
— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Printed at the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield Printer to the University
Date
1716
Metaphor
"Joyn Sense and Reason, and Experiment unto Speculation, and so give life unto Embryon Truths, and Verities yet in their Chaos."
Metaphor in Context
Let thy Studies [he writes] be as free as thy Thoughts and Contemplations: but fly not only upon the wings of Imagination; Joyn Sense and Reason, and Experiment unto Speculation, and so give life unto Embryon Truths, and Verities yet in their Chaos. There is nothing more acceptable unto the Ingenious World, than this noble Eluctation of Truth; wherein, against the tenacity fo Prejudice and Prescription, this Century now prevaileth. What Libraries of new Volumes aftertimes will behold, and in what a new World of Knowledge the eyes of our posterity may be happy, a few Ages may joyfully declare.
(p. 470)
(p. 470)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Louis Bredvold's The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962), p. 44.
Citation
At least 4 entries in ESTC (1716, 1723, 1756, 1761).
Christian Morals, by Sr Thomas Brown, of Norwich, M. D. and Author of Religio Medici. Published from the Original and Correct Manuscript of the Author; by John Jeffery, D. D. Arch-Deacon of Norwich. (Cambridge: Printed at the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield Printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and Mr. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, London, 1716). <Link to ESTC>
Christian Morals, by Sr Thomas Brown, of Norwich, M. D. and Author of Religio Medici. Published from the Original and Correct Manuscript of the Author; by John Jeffery, D. D. Arch-Deacon of Norwich. (Cambridge: Printed at the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield Printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and Mr. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, London, 1716). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
04/06/2005
