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... whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts , new paradoxes , opinions , schisms , heresies , controversies in philosophy , re- ligion , & c . Now come tidings of weddings , maskings , mum- meries , entertainments , jubiles , embassies ...
... whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts , new paradoxes , opinions , schisms , heresies , controversies in philosophy , re- ligion , & c . Now come tidings of weddings , maskings , mum- meries , entertainments , jubiles , embassies ...
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... whole verses , pages , tracts , as some do now a dayes , concealing their authors names ; but still said this was Cyprian's , that Lactantius , that Hilarius , so said Minutius Felix , so Victorinus , thus far Arnobius : I cite and ...
... whole verses , pages , tracts , as some do now a dayes , concealing their authors names ; but still said this was Cyprian's , that Lactantius , that Hilarius , so said Minutius Felix , so Victorinus , thus far Arnobius : I cite and ...
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... whole teems of oxen cannot draw them ; and , had I been as forward and ambitious as some others , I might have haply printed a serinon at Paul's Cross , a sermon in St. Marie's Oxon , a sermon in Christ - Church , or a sermon be- fore ...
... whole teems of oxen cannot draw them ; and , had I been as forward and ambitious as some others , I might have haply printed a serinon at Paul's Cross , a sermon in St. Marie's Oxon , a sermon in Christ - Church , or a sermon be- fore ...
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... whole physitian . A divine , in this compound mixt malady , can do little alone ; a physitian , in some kindes of melancholy , much less : both make an absolute cure : b Alterius sic altera poscit opem : and ' tis proper to them both ...
... whole physitian . A divine , in this compound mixt malady , can do little alone ; a physitian , in some kindes of melancholy , much less : both make an absolute cure : b Alterius sic altera poscit opem : and ' tis proper to them both ...
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... whole head is sick , saith Esay ; and the heart is heavy , cap . 1. 5. and makes lighter of them than of oxen and asses ; the ass knows his & c . read Deut . 32. 6. Jer . 4. Gal . 3. 1. Ephes . 5. 6 . Be not mad , be not deceived ...
... whole head is sick , saith Esay ; and the heart is heavy , cap . 1. 5. and makes lighter of them than of oxen and asses ; the ass knows his & c . read Deut . 32. 6. Jer . 4. Gal . 3. 1. Ephes . 5. 6 . Be not mad , be not deceived ...
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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.