ITS SEQUEL Christian Morals. BY SIR THOMAS BROWNE, KT. M. D. WITH RESEMBLANT PASSAGES FROM COWPER'S TASK, AND A VERBAL INDEX. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXLIV. . EDITOR'S PREFACE. Ir is very remarkable that notwithstanding their close relationship these two Treatises by Sir Thomas Browne have never been linked together in the same volume until now. RELIGIO MEDICI Was the earliest production of his pen; that admirable Sequel CHRISTIAN MORALS the last which fell from it. It is delightful to perceive the perfect harmony that reigns in both works although well nigh half a century rolled away between the respective periods of their composition. The pure and lofty thoughts which dwelt in his heart in the pensive evening of life were but the same that the author had cherished and avowed in the bright morn of early manhood. |