The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior, Volume 11806 |
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... alter ) . I might be of Thucydides opinion , to know a thing and not to express it , is all one as if he knew it not . When I first took this task in hand , et quod ait eille , im- pellente genio negotium suscepi , this I aimed at f vel ...
... alter ) . I might be of Thucydides opinion , to know a thing and not to express it , is all one as if he knew it not . When I first took this task in hand , et quod ait eille , im- pellente genio negotium suscepi , this I aimed at f vel ...
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... alter , and see farther than my predecessours ; and it is no greater prejudice for me to indite after others , than for Elianus Montaltus , that famous physitian , to write de morbis capitis after Jason Pratensis , Heurnius , Hildesheim ...
... alter , and see farther than my predecessours ; and it is no greater prejudice for me to indite after others , than for Elianus Montaltus , that famous physitian , to write de morbis capitis after Jason Pratensis , Heurnius , Hildesheim ...
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... altered , and avoided in Galen , Aristotle , those great masters . Boni venatoris ( bone holds ) plures feras cupere ... alter that which is written . If ought therefore be amiss , ( as I grant there is ) I require a friendly admonition ...
... altered , and avoided in Galen , Aristotle , those great masters . Boni venatoris ( bone holds ) plures feras cupere ... alter that which is written . If ought therefore be amiss , ( as I grant there is ) I require a friendly admonition ...
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... altered , expunged in this sixth edition , others amended , much added , because many good authors in all kindes are ... alter , or retract ; I have done . The last and greatest exception is , that I , being a divine , have medled with ...
... altered , expunged in this sixth edition , others amended , much added , because many good authors in all kindes are ... alter , or retract ; I have done . The last and greatest exception is , that I , being a divine , have medled with ...
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... alter alterum deridet . b Denique sit finis quærendi : cumque habeas plus , Pauperiem metuas minus , et finire laborer Incipias , parto , quod avebas : utere . Hor . superfluities , and unprofitable things , which bring nothing with ...
... alter alterum deridet . b Denique sit finis quærendi : cumque habeas plus , Pauperiem metuas minus , et finire laborer Incipias , parto , quod avebas : utere . Hor . superfluities , and unprofitable things , which bring nothing with ...
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Page iii - When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All my joys besides are folly, None so sweet as melancholy.
Page xii - Wood's character of him is, that "he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete,...
Page 11 - Eximia veste et victu convivia, ludi, pocula crebra, unguenta coronae serta parantur, nequiquam, quoniam medio de fonte leporum surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat...
Page xviii - Let him take a course of chymistry, or a course of rope-dancing, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself. Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy' is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation. But there is great spirit and great power in what Burton says, when he writes from his own mind.
Page xxiii - I have continued (having the use of as good ' libraries as ever he had) a scholar, and would be therefore loth, either, by living as a drone, to be an unprofitable or unworthy member of so learned and noble a society, or to write that which should be any way dishonourable to such a royal and ample foundation.
Page xviii - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Page 5 - Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens to set out our own sterile plots. . . . [W]e weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again.
Page 79 - We had need of some general visitor in our age that should reform what is amiss — a just army of Rosie-cross men ; for they will amend all matters, (they say) religion, policy, manners, with arts, sciences, &c.
Page 2 - ... teach others how to prevent and avoid it. Which good intent of his Hippocrates highly commended, Democritus Junior is therefore bold to imitate, and, because he left it imperfect, and it is now lost, quasi succenturiator Democriti, to revive again, prosecute, and finish in this treatise.
Page 15 - Melancholy, cold and dry, thick, black, and sour, begotten of the more feculent part of nourishment, and purged from the spleen, is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.