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" I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many... "
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...thy thinking should have bred a loathing-, caused in him a greater liking. " TI no sooner (saith he] come into the Library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idlenesse the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1804 - 622 pages
...avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse if Idlenesse the mother of ignorance, and Melancholy her self; and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my .seat, with so Ififty a spirit and sweet content, that I pitty all our great ones, a/id rich men, that know not this...
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The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on ..., Volume 2

Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall - 1807 - 388 pages
...excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance and melancholy herself; and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I takemy seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men,...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pages
...to my .thinking should have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. I no sooner (saith he) come into the Library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding Lust, Ambition, Avarice, and all such vices, whose Nunee is Idleness, the Mother of Ignorance and Melancholy. In the very lap of...
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The Director [ed. by T.F. Dibdin]., Volumes 1-2

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 pages
...to the public one at Leyden, of which he was the keeper, he breaks out in the following manner : ' I no sooner come into the library, but I bolt the door, excluding Just, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, tile mother of ignorance...
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The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on ..., Volume 2

Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall - 1807 - 386 pages
...to the public one at Ley den, of which he was the keeper, he breaks out in the following manner : ' I no sooner come into the library, but I bolt the door, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance...
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The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ...

Basil Montagu - 1820 - 200 pages
...Heinsius, the keeper of the library at Leyden, after being mewed up in it the whole of one year, said, " I no sooner come into the library but I bolt the door after me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness the mother...
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The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior, Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1821 - 614 pages
...thy thinking should have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. " / no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, ijohose nurse is Idlenesse the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy her self; and, in...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1821 - 612 pages
...thinking should have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. a / no sooner (saith he) come info the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, dvarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idlenesse the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy her self;...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 538 pages
...to my thinking should have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. I no sooner, saith he, come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding Lust, Ambition, Avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance and Melancholy. In the very lap of...
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