The Anatomy of melancholy v. 1, Volume 1W.J. Widdleton, 1875 |
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Æsop amongst ancholy animi Aristotle atque Austin Avicenna beasts blood body brain calls Cardan cause causeth choly cities common commonly consil Crato cure dæmon Democritus devils discontent diseases divine dizzards doth ejus enim Epist fear Felix Plater folly fools Galen grief Guianerius habent hæc hath heart Hippocrates hist homines hominum honour humours Idem idle kind labour Lactantius Lemnius live liver magis malady malè meat melan melancholy men's mihi mind misery Montaltus morbis morbos multi natural Nemo nihil nisi nunc omnes omnia Ovid Paracelsus passions physicians Plato Plautus Plutarch poet poor potest præ princes quæ quam quibus quid quis quod quum reason rest Rhasis rich sæpe saith Scaliger scholars Sect Seneca sibi sorrow soul spirits Subs sunt thee things thou Tract Tully unto wise wits
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Page 39 - A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself ; " I may likely add, alter, and see farther than my predecessors ; and it is no greater prejudice for me to indite after others, than for .ZElianus Montaltus, that famous physician, to write de morbis capitis after Jason Pratensis,
Page 225 - Do not that to another which thou wouldest not have done to thyself." Dictamen applies it to him, and dictates this or the like : Regulus, thou wouldst not another man should falsify his oath, or break promise with thee ; conscience concludes, therefore, Regulus, thou dost well to perform thy promise, and oughtest to keep thine oath. More of this in Religious Melancholy.
Page 27 - and laugh heartily at such variety of ridiculous objects, which there he saw." Such a one was Democritus. But in the mean time, how doth this concern me, or upon what reference do I usurp this habit ? I confess, indeed, that to compare myself unto him for aught I have yet said, were both
Page 260 - Paracelsus reckons up many places in Germany, where they do usually walk in little coats, some two feet long. A bigger kind there is of them called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would in those superstitious times grind corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work. They would mend old irons in those
Page 497 - in the anguish of her soul, give me a child, or I shall die ; " another hath too many ; one was never married, and that's his hell, another is, and that's his plague. Some are troubled in that they are obscure ; others by being traduced, slandered, abused, disgraced, vilified, or any way injured
Page 201 - Blood is a hot, sweet, temperate, red humour, prepared in the meseraic veins, and made of the most temperate parts of the chylus in the liver, whose office is to nourish the whole body, to give it strength and colour, being dispersed by the veins through every part of it. And from it
Page 482 - wept for her children, and would not be comforted because they were not." Matt. ii. 18. So did Adrian the emperor bewail his Antinous ; Hercules, Hylas ; Orpheus, Eurydice ; David, Absalom ; (O my dear son Absalom ;) Austin his mother Monica, Niobe her children, insomuch that the 2 poets feigned her to be turned into a stone, as being
Page 35 - biblioth. bcinati etiam laudis amore, &c. Justus out their bad-sited 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. Castrant olios ut libros suos per se graciles alieno adipe suffarciant (so *Jovius inveighs). They lard their lean books with the fat of other's works.
Page 29 - live still a collegiate student, as Democritus in his garden, and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum, sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world, Et tanquam in specula positus (*as he said), in some high place above you all, like Stoicus Sapiens, omnia sœcula,
Page 192 - daughters, that thought themselves kine. And Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel, as some interpreters hold, was only troubled with this kind of madness. This disease perhaps gave occasion to that bold assertion of 'Pliny, " some men were turned into wolves in his time, and from wolves to men again ;