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Robert Burton was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopaedic The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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culture · English scholar and author (1577–1640) · essayist · writer · university teacher · also Robert Burton, Democritus Junior, Burton
Born 8 February 1577 · Died 25 January 1640 · Q259132
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s one truly great work as The Anatomy of Melancholy. Ostensibly a three-part treatise on depression and its treatment, the book consists of quotations from, paraphrases of and commentary on numerous authors, from many fields of learning, and ranging from classical times to his contemporaries, in a
hopes were still frustrate, and I left behind, as a Dolphin on shore, confined to my Colledge, as Diogenes to his tubbe
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“s one truly great work as The Anatomy of Melancholy. Ostensibly a three-part treatise on depression and its treatment, the book consists of quotations from, paraphrases of and commentary on numerous authors, from many fields of learning, and ranging from classical times to his contemporaries, in a”
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“hopes were still frustrate, and I left behind, as a Dolphin on shore, confined to my Colledge, as Diogenes to his tubbe”
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“think no slavery in the world (as once I did myself) like to that of a Grammar Scholar”
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Though not often reprinted, "Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy survives among the cognoscenti"
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Christ Church Library disassembled Osler's Burton collection, moving the books to the Archiva Superiora on the second floor
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It was even performed at the University of California
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“Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading”
Died 1640-01-25.
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“Uma religião é tão verdadeira quanto a outra.”
“Os homens que têm sucesso são os eficientes. Eles são os poucos que tem a ambição e força de vontade para se desenvolver.”
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Born 1577-02-08.
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