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What Can a 17th-Century English Doctor Teach Us About Embracing Uncertainty?

Cutter Wood on Thomas Browne and the Joys of Exploring What We Don't Know

https://lithub.com/what-can-a-17th-century-english-doctor-teach-us-about-embracing-uncertainty/

Thomas Browne at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/304

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What Can a 17th-Century English Doctor Teach Us About Embracing Uncertainty?

I’ve been reading Sir Thomas Browne again. It happens every few years. There must be some underlying mental weather pattern here that I haven’t quite cottoned on to. Life is cruising along—sure the…

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How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

https://lithub.com/how-charles-dickenss-troubled-childhood-influenced-his-literary-output/

Charles Dickens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

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How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

By February 1844, Dickens could smilingly assume that his was a cue for universal joy. Earlier, the world seemed more inclined to demean or discard him. In 1823, not yet twelve and “such a li…

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