The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior

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الصفحة 346 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
الصفحة 178 - From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharitableness, Good Lord, deliver us.
الصفحة x - Christ-church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and...
الصفحة 303 - The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth ; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
الصفحة 299 - Come unto me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will ease you,
الصفحة 351 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
الصفحة x - Melancholy," was composed, (says Granger) with a view of relieving his own melancholy ; but increased it to such a. degree, that nothing could make him laugh, but going to the bridge-foot, and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent fit of laughter. Before he was overcome with this horrid disorder, he in the intervals of his vapours was esteemed one of the most facetious companions in the university.
الصفحة 149 - ... as much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our City Captains, and Carpet Knights, will make this good, and prove it. Thus they many times wilfully pervert the good temperature of their bodies, stifle their wits, strangle nature, and degenerate into beasts.
الصفحة 420 - For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
الصفحة 140 - if any were visited with the falling sickness, madness, gout, leprosy, or any such dangerous disease, which was likely to be propagated from the father to the son, he was instantly gelded: a woman kept from all company of men; and if by chance, having some such disease, she were found to be with child, she with her brood were buried alive": and this was done for the common good, lest the whole nation should be injured or corrupted.

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