The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, ... In Three Partitions. ... By Democritus Junior. With a Satyricall Preface ... The Ninth Edition, Corrected; to which is Now First Prefixed, an Account of the Author. ...J. Cundee, 1800 |
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... friends , “ you are but miserable comforters all . " Tis to no purpose in that vulgar phrase to use a company of ... friend , Cornelius Rufus a Roman Senator , wrote to his fellow Tiro in like case , adhibe solatia , sed nova aliqua ...
... friends , “ you are but miserable comforters all . " Tis to no purpose in that vulgar phrase to use a company of ... friend , Cornelius Rufus a Roman Senator , wrote to his fellow Tiro in like case , adhibe solatia , sed nova aliqua ...
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... friends , poverty , want , sick- ness , orbities , injuries , abuses , & c . Generally all discontent , homines quatimur fortune salo . No condition free , quisq ; suos patimur manes . Even in the mid'st of our mirth and jollity , there ...
... friends , poverty , want , sick- ness , orbities , injuries , abuses , & c . Generally all discontent , homines quatimur fortune salo . No condition free , quisq ; suos patimur manes . Even in the mid'st of our mirth and jollity , there ...
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... friends , enemies , fair or foul meanes cannot contain us , but a little sickness , ( as Chrysostome ob- serves ) will correct and amend us . " And therefore with good Petrarch . Lib . 2. cap . 20. oneri est illis corporis moles , et ...
... friends , enemies , fair or foul meanes cannot contain us , but a little sickness , ( as Chrysostome ob- serves ) will correct and amend us . " And therefore with good Petrarch . Lib . 2. cap . 20. oneri est illis corporis moles , et ...
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... friends , & c . are the sawces of our life . " If thy disease be continuate and painfull to thee , it will not surely last : " and a light affliction , which is but for a moment , causeth unto us a far more excellent and eternall weight ...
... friends , & c . are the sawces of our life . " If thy disease be continuate and painfull to thee , it will not surely last : " and a light affliction , which is but for a moment , causeth unto us a far more excellent and eternall weight ...
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... friends , fortunes , or great dutchy of Tuscany . " So I accompt thee ; and who doth not so indeed ? Abdolominus was a gardner , and yet by Alexander for his vertues made king of Syria . How much better is it to be born of mean ...
... friends , fortunes , or great dutchy of Tuscany . " So I accompt thee ; and who doth not so indeed ? Abdolominus was a gardner , and yet by Alexander for his vertues made king of Syria . How much better is it to be born of mean ...
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