Sir Thomas Browne

Burton's _Anatomy_, and Sir Thomas Browne -- a humble apartment, which seemed pleasanter to Mr. Granger under the dominion of that spell which bound him just now, than the most luxurious of his mediaeval chambers.

The Lovels of Arden 1875

"Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, "find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors."

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821

Musicke,” wrote Sir Thomas Browne, in his Religio medici ([1635], Part II, sec. 9), “which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of the First Composer.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968