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)

    “I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.”
    —Thomas Browne (1605–1682)