The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,057 pages of information about The Anatomy of Melancholy.

The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,057 pages of information about The Anatomy of Melancholy.

3321.  Thibault.

3322.  As in travelling the rest go forward and look before them, an
      antiquary alone looks round about him, seeing things past, &c. hath a
      complete horizon.  Janus Bifrons.

3323.  Cardan.  “What is more subtle than arithmetical conclusions; what more
      agreeable than musical harmonies; what more divine than astronomical,
      what more certain than geometrical demonstrations?”

3324.  Hondius praefat.  Mercatoris.  “It allures the mind by its agreeable
      attraction, on account of the incredible variety and pleasantness of
      the subjects, and excites to a further step in knowledge.”

3325.  Atlas Geog.

3326.  Cardan.  “To learn the mysteries of the heavens, the secret workings
      of nature, the order of the universe, is a greater happiness and
      gratification than any mortal can think or expect to obtain.”

3327.  Lib. de cupid. divitiarum.

3328.  Leon.  Diggs. praefat. ad perpet. prognost.

3329.  Plus capio voluptatis, &c.

3330.  In Hipperchen. divis. 3.

3331.  “It is more honourable and glorious to understand these truths than
      to govern provinces, to be beautiful or to be young.”

3332.  Cardan. praefat. rerum variet.

3333.  Poetices lib.

3334.  Lib. 3.  Ode 9.  Donec gratus eram tibi, &c.

3335.  De Pelopones. lib. 6. descript.  Graec.

3336.  Quos si integros haberemus, Dii boni, quas opes, quos thesauros
      teneremus.

3337.  Isaack Wake musae regnantes.

3338.  Si unquam mihi in fatis sit, ut captivus ducar, si mihi daretur
      optio, hoc cuperem carcere concludi, his catenia illigari, cum hisce
      captivis concatenatis aetatem agere.

3339.  Epist.  Primiero.  Plerunque in qua simul ac pedem posui, foribus
      pessulum abdo; ambitionem autem, amorem, libidinem, etc. excludo,
      quorum parens est ignavia, imperitia nutrix, et in ipso aeternitatis
      gremio, inter tot illustres animas sedem mihi sumo, cum ingenti
      quidem animo, ut subinde magnatum me misereat, qui felicitatem hanc
      ignorant.

3340.  Chil. 2.  Cent. 1.  Adag. 1.

3341.  Virg. eclog. 1.

3342.  Founder of our public library in Oxon.

3343.  Ours in Christ Church, Oxon.

3344.  Animus lavatur inde a curis multa quiete et tranquillitate fruens.

3345.  Ser. 38. ad Fratres Erem.

3346.  Hom. 4. de poenitentia.  Nam neque arborum comae pro pecorum tuguriis
      factae meridie per aestatem, optabilem exhibentes umbram oves ita
      reficiunt, ac scripturarum lectio afflictas angore animas solatur et
      recreat.

3347.  Otium sine literis mors est, et vivi hominis sepultura, Seneca.

3348.  Cap. 99. l. 57. de rer. var.

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