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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms ... - Page 12
by Robert Burton - 1883 - 747 pages
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...penitus aspernabatur ejus professores, quod linguam duntaxaf, non autcm mentem reddcrent eruditiorem. not my study or intent to compose neatly, which an Orator requires, but to express my self readily and plainly as it happens. So that as a River runs sometimes precipitate and swift,...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1804 - 622 pages
...penitus aspemabatur ejus professorei, quod lin« guam duntaxat, non autcm muucm, redderent eruditioreiu. not my Study or intent to compose neatly, which an orator requires, but to express my self readily and plainly as it happens: so that, as a river runs, sometimes precipitate and swift,...
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The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior, Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...aspernabatur ejus profcssores, quod liiiguam d¿:ntaxat, non autéro mentem, redderem eruditiorem. not my study or intent to compose neatly, which an orator requires, but to express my self readily and plainly as it happens : so that, as a river runs, sometimes precipitate and swift,...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1821 - 612 pages
...aspernabatur cjus professnres, quod linauam duntaxat, non autem mentem, reddcrent cruditioroin. vol. i. c not my study or intent to compose neatly, which an orator requires, but to express my self readily and plainly as it happens : so that, as a river runs, sometimes precipitate and swift,...
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The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior, Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1827 - 616 pages
...penitus aapcrnabatur ejus professores, quodlin. guam duntaxat, non autem mentem, redderent eruditiorera. not my study or intent to compose neatly, which an...and swift, then dull and slow ; now direct, then per amfyages ; now deep, then shallow ; now muddy, then clear ; now broad, then narrow ; doth my style...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 6

1835 - 534 pages
...junior, I can say to him who reads me, that ' 't is not my study or intent to compose neatly, \vhich an orator requires, but to express myself readily...direct, then per ambages ; now deep, then shallow : now broad, then narrow, doth my style flowe ; now serious, then light ; now comickal, then satyrickal ;...
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The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior

Robert Burton - 1836 - 768 pages
...Socrates : I neglect phrases, and labour wholly to inform my readers' understanding, not to please his ear ; 'tis not my study or intent to compose neatly, which an orator requires, but to express my self readily and plainly as it happens : so that, as a river runs, sometimes precipitate and swift,...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy ...: To which is Prefixed, a Satyricall Preface ...

Robert Burton - 1838 - 762 pages
...Socrates : I neglect phrases, and labour wholly to inform my readers' understanding, not to please his divine looks. Inanimate creatures I suppose, have a touch of this, when a drop of h Psyches c my self readily and plainly as it happens : so that, as a river runs, sometimes precipitate and swift,...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1838 - 762 pages
...Socrates : I neglect phrases, and labour wholly to inform my readers' understanding, not to please his ear ; 'tis not my study or intent to compose neatly, which an orator requires, but to express my self readily and plainly as it happens : so that, as a river runs, sometimes precipitate and swift,...
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Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 1

Robert Southey - 1849 - 428 pages
...own Style.] "I NEGLECT phrases, and labour wholly to inform my reader's understanding, not to please his ear ; 'tis not my study or intent to compose neatly,...now deep, then shallow ; now muddy, then clear ; now brund. then narrow; doth my style flow : now f-eriuus, then light ; now comical, then satirical ; now...
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