Isaac Hawkins Browne

Isaac Hawkins Browne may refer to

  • Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet) (1705–1760)
  • Isaac Hawkins Browne (coalowner) and politician (1745–1818)

Famous quotes containing the words isaac and/or browne:

    Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
    Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.

    To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)

    We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
    —Thomas Browne (1605–1682)