The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

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The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

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

551.  Hodie urbibus desolatur, et magna ex parte incolis destituitur. 
     Gerbelius desc.  Graeciae, lib. 6.

552.  Videbit eas fere omnes aut eversas, aut solo aequatas, aut in rudera
     foedissime dejectas Gerbelius.

553.  Not even the hardest of our foes could hear,
     Nor stern Ulysses tell without a tear.

554.  Lib. 7.  Septuaginta olim legiones scriptae dicuntur; quas vires hodie,
     &c.

555.  Polit. l. 3. c. 8.

556.  For dyeing of cloths, and dressing, &c.

557.  Valer. l. 2. c. 1.

558.  Hist.  Scot.  Lib. 10.  Magnis propositis praemiis, ut Scoti ab iis
     edocerentur.

559.  Munst. cosm. l. 5. c. 74.  Agro omnium rerum infoecundissimo aqua
     indigente inter saxeta, urbs tamen elegantissima, ob Orientis
     negotiationes et Occidentis.

560.  Lib. 8.  Georgr:  ob asperum situm.

561.  Lib.  Edit. a Nic.  Tregant.  Belg.  A. 1616. expedit. in Sinas.

562.  Ubi nobiles probi loco habent artem aliquam profiteri.  Cleonard. ep.
     l. 1.

563.  Lib. 13.  Belg.  Hist. non tam laboriosi ut Belgae, sed ut Hispani
     otiatores vitam ut plurimum otiosam agentes:  artes manuariae quae
     plurimum habent in se laboris et difficultatis, majoremque requirunt
     industriam, a peregrinis et exteris exercentur; habitant in
     piscosissimo mari, interea tantum non piscantur quantum insulae
     suffecerit sed a vicinis emere coguntur.

564.  Grotii Liber.

565.  Urbs animis numeroque potens, et robore gentis.  Scaliger.

566.  Camden.

567.  York, Bristow, Norwich, Worcester, &c.

568.  M. Gainsford’s Argument:  Because gentlemen dwell with us in the
     country villages, our cities are less, is nothing to the purpose:  put
     three hundred or four hundred villages in a shire, and every village
     yield a gentleman, what is four hundred families to increase one of
     our cities, or to contend with theirs, which stand thicker?  And
     whereas ours usually consist of seven thousand, theirs consist of
     forty thousand inhabitants.

569.  Maxima pars victus in carne consistit.  Polyd.  Lib. 1.  Hist.

570.  Refraenate monopolii licentiam, pauciores alantur otio, redintegretur
     agricolatio, lanificium instauretur, ut sit honestum negotium quo se
     exerceat otiosa illa turba.  Nisi his malis medentur, frustra exercent
     justitiam.  Mor.  Utop.  Lib. 1.

571.  Mancipiis locuples eget aeris Cappadocum rex.  Hor.

572.  Regis dignitatis non est exercere imperium in mendicos sed in
     opulentos.  Non est regni decus, sed carceris esse custos.  Idem.

573.  Colluvies hominum mirabiles excocti solo, immundi vestes foedi visu,
     furti imprimis acres, &c.

574.  Cosmog. lib. 3. cap. 5.

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