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The opening part offers a candid, introspective apology for private religious conviction that intertwines medical observation, natural philosophy, and Christian devotion. A later essay, prompted by the unearthing of ancient urns, becomes an erudite meditation on burial practices, mortality, the transience of fame, and human attempts at memorialization. A companion letter develops similar consolatory and speculative themes in a more personal register. Throughout, learned, allusive prose moves between empirical detail, classical and biblical scholarship, and metaphysical reflection, balancing curiosity about the natural world with steady concern for spiritual meaning.
103. Just.
104. Destruction.
105. A chemical vessel made of earth, ashes, or burnt bones, and in which assay-masters try their metals. It suffers all baser ones when fused and mixed with lead to pass off, and retains only gold and silver.
106. This substance known to French chemists by the name “adipo-cire,” was first discovered by Sir Thomas Browne.
107. From its thickness.
108. Euripides.
109. Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Egyptian, Arabic defaced by the Emperor Licinius.