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The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior - Page xvi
by Robert Burton - 1821
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student,...humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, & person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ-church...
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The Port Folio

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 552 pages
...nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student,...honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard," continues the biographer, " some of the ancients of Christ church often say, that his company w*s very...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student,...and charity. I have heard some of the an»cients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man of his...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student,...plain dealing, and charity. I have heard some of the an-* cients of' Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student,...well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing, and chanty. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student,...and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile ; • id no man of his...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe studen£, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person;...and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile ; and no man of his...
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An Olio of Bibliographical and Literary Anecdotes and Memoranda, Original ...

William Davis (bibliographer.) - Bibliography - 1814 - 146 pages
...nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough paced Philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humourous person, so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity....
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An olio of bibliographical and literary anecdotes, including mr. Cole's ...

William Davis (bibliographer.) - 1814 - 140 pages
...was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humourous person, *o by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. 1 have heard some of the ancients of Christ Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete,...
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The Herald of peace. July 1850-Jan./March 1930. Oct. /Dec. 1938, Jan./April 1939

International peace society - 232 pages
...nativities, a general-read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student,...his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile." His principal work, and the only one that has escaped oblivion, is the "Anatomy of Melancholy," one...
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