| Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...Democriti, to revive again, prosecute, and finish in this treatise. You have had a reason of the name. If the title and inscription offend your gravity,...sermons themselves, which in their fronts carry more phantastical names. Howsoever, it is a kinde of policie in these daies, to prefix a phantastical title... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...Democriti, to revive again, prosecute, and finish in this treatise. You have had a reason of the name. If the title and inscription offend your gravity,...sermons themselves, which in their fronts carry more phantas-? tical names. Howsoever, it is a kind of policy in these dayes, to prefix a phantastical title... | |
| Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...Democriti, to revive again, prosecute, and finish in this treatise. You have had a reason of the name. If the title and inscription offend your gravity,...accuse others, I could produce many sober treatises, evtn sermons themselves, which in their fronts carry more phantastical names. Howsoever, it is a kinde... | |
| Varieties - 1819 - 774 pages
...VOL. II. Printed byT. C. Hansard, VARIETIES IN WOMAN IN WOMAN. A NOVEL, IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. " Howsoever, it is a kind of policy in these days, to prefix a phantastical title to a book which is to be sold ; for as larks come down to a day-net, many rain readers... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1821 - 612 pages
...Democriti, to revive again, prosecute, and finish in this treatise. You have had a reason of the name. If the title and inscription offend your gravity,...sermons themselves, which in their fronts carry more phantastical names. Howsoever, it is a kind of policy in these dayes, to prefix a phantastical title... | |
| Robert Burton - 1821 - 614 pages
...Democriti, to revive again, prosecute, and finish in this treatise. You nave had a reason of the name. If the title and inscription offend your gravity,...sermons themselves, which in their fronts carry more phantastical names. Howsoever, it is a kind of policy in these dayes, to prefix a phantastical title... | |
| Robert Burton - 1826 - 608 pages
...prosecute, and finish «i this treatise. You have had a reason of (he name. If the title and incription offend your gravity, were it a sufficient justification...sermons themselves, which in their fronts carry more phantastical names. Howsoever, it is a kind of policy m these dayes, to prefix a phantastical title... | |
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| William Leete Stone - American fiction - 1834 - 266 pages
...is a kind of policy in these dayes," says the eccentric author already more than once spoken of, " to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a daynet, many vain readers will tarry, and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture... | |
| 1836 - 600 pages
...conducing to the following Discourse. Macrob. Omne meum; nihil meum.: In defence of this title he says, ' It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical...•which is to be sold ; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing.' The name of Democritus Junior is introduced... | |
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