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One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton’s astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it “the greatest work of prose of the... read more
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- Chrysostom
- Avicenna
- Paul
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- Solomon
- Jason Pratensis
- Lucretia
- Venus
- Hippocrates
- Vega
- Rhasis
- John
- Heurnius
- Gordonius
- Seneca
- Melancthon
- Laurentius
- Cupid
- God Himself
- Gregory
- Leon Hebræus
- Lipsius
- Piso
- Cyprian
- Macrobius
- Diana
- Lemnius
- Erasmus
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- Ætius
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- Saul
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- Adam
- A. Gellius
- Hierome
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- Cleopatra
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- St. Austin
- Austin
- France
- Italy
- Greece
- Egypt
- Jupiter
- Africa
- Germany
- Europe
- Spain
- China
- Hildesheim
- Venice
- Athens
- Asia
- Savanarola
- Cardan
- England
- Brassivola
- Savonarola
- Paris
- Poland
- Bohemia
- America
- Plautus
- Guianerius
- Turkey
- Constantinople
- Jerusalem
- Padua
- Munster
- Sallust
- London
- Mars
- Valleriola
- Naples
- Saxoniâ
- Montpelier
- Japan
- Salvianus
- Camden
- Sicily
- Corinth
- Muscovy
- Iceland
- Peru
- Holland
- Persia
- Altomarus
- Euripides
- Abdera
- Thebes
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First Sentence edit
BECAUSE, in the precedent Section, I have made mention of good counsel, comfortable speeches, persuasion, how necessarily they are required to the cure of a discontented or troubled mind, how present a remedy they yield, and many times a sole sufficient cure of themselves; I have thought fit, in this following Section, a little to digress, (if at least it be to digress in this subject), to collect and glean a few remedies, and comfortable speeches out of our best Orators, Philosophers, Divines, and Fathers of the Church, tending to this purpose.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in LMU Anglistik Syllabus. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert Burton (Author)
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- Dewey: 616.89
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- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Mental Illness
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