11/6/2022 0 Comments Melancholy love quotes![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() per annum, but we must pay to the patron for the lease of a life (a spent and out-worn life) either in annual pension, or above the rate of a copyhold, and that with the hazard and loss of our souls, by simony and perjury, and the forfeiture of all our spiritual preferments, in esse and posse, both present and to come. If by this price of the expense of time, our bodies and spirits, our substance and patrimonies, we cannot purchase those small rewards, which are ours by law, and the right of inheritance, a poor parsonage, or a vicarage of 50 l. “We that are bred up in learning, and destinated by our parents to this end, we suffer our childhood in the grammar-school, which Austin calls magnam tyrannidem, et grave malum, and compares it to the torments of martyrdom when we come to the university, if we live of the college allowance, as Phalaris objected to the Leontines,, needy of all things but hunger and fear, or if we be maintained but partly by our parents' cost, do expend in unnecessary maintenance, books and degrees, before we come to any perfection, five hundred pounds, or a thousand marks. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It in Three Partitions With Their Several Sections, Members, and Subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up, V For my part I am one of the number-one of the many-I do not deny it.” Twice a year we stretch out wits out and set them to sale after great toil we attain nothing…What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast Chaos and confusion of Books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning. What a catalogue of new books this year, all his age (I say) have our Frankfurt Marts, our domestic Marts, brought out. Among so many thousand Authors you shall scarce find one by reading of whom you shall be any whit better, but rather much worse by which he is rather infected than any way perfected… Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vain-glory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they put out trifles, rubbish and trash. “very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. ![]()
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