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.

670. 62 Bux.  Synag.  Jud.  Sic.  Judaei.  Leo Afer Africae descript. ne sint
     aliter incontinentes ob reipub. bonum.  Ut August.  Caesar. orat. ad
     caelibes Romanos olim edocuit.

671.  Morbo laborans, qui in prolem facile diffunditur, ne genus humanum
     foeda contagione laedatur, juventute castratur, mulieres tales procul
     a consortio virorum ablegantur, &c.  Hector Boethius hist. lib. 1. de
     vet.  Scotorum moribus.

672.  Speciosissimi juvenes liberis dabunt operam.  Plato 5. de legibus.

673.  The Saxons exclude dumb, blind, leprous, and such like persons from
     all inheritance, as we do fools.

674.  Ut olim Romani, Hispani hodie, &c.

675.  Riccius lib. 11. cap. 5. de Sinarum. expedit. sic Hispani cogunt
     Mauros arma deponere.  So it is in most Italian cities.

676.  Idem Plato 12. de legibus, it hath ever been immoderate, vide Guil. 
     Stuckium antiq. convival. lib. 1. cap. 26.

677.  Plato 9. de legibus.

678.  As those Lombards beyond Seas, though with some reformation, mons
     pietatis, or bank of charity, as Malines terms it, cap. 33.  Lex
     mercat. part 2. that lend money upon easy pawns, or take money upon
     adventure for men’s lives.

679.  That proportion will make merchandise increase, land dearer, and
     better improved, as he hath judicially proved in his tract of usury,
     exhibited to the Parliament anno 1621.

680.  Hoc fere Zanchius com. in 4 cap. ad Ephes. aequissimam vocat usuram,
     et charitati Christianae consentaneam, modo non exigant, &c. nec omnes
     dent ad foenus, sed ii qui in pecuniis bona habent, et ob aetatem,
     sexum, artis alicujus ignorantiam, non possunt uti.  Nec omnibus, sed
     mercatoribus et iis qui honeste impendent, &c.

681.  Idem apud Persas olim, lege Brisonium.

682.  “We hate the hawk, because he always lives in battle.”

683.  Idem Plato de legibus.

684. 30.  Optimum quidem fuerat eam patribus nostris mentem a diis datam
     esse, ut vos Italiae, nos Africae imperio contenti essemus.  Neque enim
     Sicilia aut Sardinia satis digna precio sunt pro tot classibus, &c.

685.  Claudian.

686.  Thucydides.

687.  A depopulatione, agrorum incendiis, et ejusmodi factis immanibus. 
     Plato.

688.  Hungar. dec. 1. lib. 9.

689.  Sesellius, lib. 2. de repub.  Gal. valde enim est indecorum, ubi quod
     praeter opinionem accidit dicere, Non putaram, presertim si res
     praecaveri potuerit.  Livius, lib. 1.  Dion. lib. 2.  Diodorus Siculus,
     lib. 2.

690.  Peragit tranquilla potestas.  Quod violenta nequit.—­Claudian.

691.  Bellum nec timendum nec provocandum.  Plin.  Panegyr.  Trajano.

692.  Lib. 3. poet. cap. 19.

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