The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions: with Their Several Sections, Members, and Subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up, Volume 1Longman, Rees, 1837 - Melancholy |
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... contention which hap- pen to our Successors after our Death by reason of unsettled Estates I Robert Burton Student of Christchurch Oxon . though my means be but small have thought good by xviii ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR .
... contention which hap- pen to our Successors after our Death by reason of unsettled Estates I Robert Burton Student of Christchurch Oxon . though my means be but small have thought good by xviii ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR .
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... means would have it repealed , though good , because dehonestabatur pessimo auctore , it had no better an author ; let some good man relate the same , and then it should pass . This counsel was embraced , factum est , and it was ...
... means would have it repealed , though good , because dehonestabatur pessimo auctore , it had no better an author ; let some good man relate the same , and then it should pass . This counsel was embraced , factum est , and it was ...
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... means , are driven to their shifts ; to turn mountebanks , quacksalvers , empiricks : and if our greedy patrons hold us to such hard conditions , as commonly they do , they will make most of us work at some trade , as Paul did -at last ...
... means , are driven to their shifts ; to turn mountebanks , quacksalvers , empiricks : and if our greedy patrons hold us to such hard conditions , as commonly they do , they will make most of us work at some trade , as Paul did -at last ...
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... means of which , it comes to pass that daily so many volun- taries offer themselves , leaving their sweet wives , children , friends , for sixpence ( if they can get it ) a day , prostitute their lives and limbs , desire to enter upon ...
... means of which , it comes to pass that daily so many volun- taries offer themselves , leaving their sweet wives , children , friends , for sixpence ( if they can get it ) a day , prostitute their lives and limbs , desire to enter upon ...
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... means , Madet orbis mutuo sanguine , the earth wallows in her own blood : ' Sævit amor ferri et scele- ratæ insania belli ; and for that which if it be done in private , a man shall be rigorously executed , and which is no less than ...
... means , Madet orbis mutuo sanguine , the earth wallows in her own blood : ' Sævit amor ferri et scele- ratæ insania belli ; and for that which if it be done in private , a man shall be rigorously executed , and which is no less than ...
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Page 60 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Page 248 - A most incomparable delight it is so to melancholize, and build castles in the air; to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine they represent, or that they see acted or done. Blanda, quidem ab initio, saith Lemnius, to conceive and meditate of such pleasant things sometimes, present, past, or to come, as Rhasis speaks.
Page 465 - Come unto me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will ease you,
Page 4 - I have little, I want nothing : all my treasure is in Minerva's tower. Greater preferment as I could never get, so am I not in debt for it. I have a competency (laus Deo) from my noble and munificent patrons.
Page 6 - I may sympathize with him or them, 'tis for no such respect I shroud myself under his name ; but either in an unknown habit to assume a little more liberty and freedom of speech...
Page 301 - Borne immortal far beyond the lofty stars', the poet shall live in everlasting fame: lamque opus exegi, quod nee lovis ira nee ignis nee poterit ferrum nee edax abolere vetustas. cum volet, ilia dies, quae nil nisi corporis huius ius habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi: parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis astra ferar, nomenque erit indelebile nostrum, quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris, ore legar populi, perque omnia saecula fama, siquid habent veri vatum praesagia, vivam.
Page xxii - 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 2 - Democritus, to get themselves credit, and by that means the more to be respected as artificers usually do, noco qui marmori ascribunt Praxitelem suo.
Page 16 - I must apologize, deprecari, and upon better advice give the friendly reader notice : it was not mine intent to prostitute my muse in English, or to divulge secreta Minerva, but to have exposed this more contract in Latin, if I could have got it printed. Any scurrile pamphlet is welcome to our mercenary stationers in English ; they print all, cuduntque libellos In quorum foliis vix simia nuda cacaret: But in Latin they will not deal...
Page 461 - They went astray in the wilderness out of the way : and found no city to dwell in ; 5 Hungry and thirsty : their soul fainted in them.