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should use less precautions
Only I say that if I were named Madame de Montpensier, or the Queen Marie de Medicis, I should use less precautions than I take, being simply called Milady Clarik.” — from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
speak untaught languages prophesy
Eccentrics and epicycles exploded Education a cause of melancholy Effects of love Election misconceived, cause of despair Element of fire exploded Emulation, hatred, faction, desire of revenge, causes of melancholy; their cure Envy and malice causes of melancholy; their antidote Epicurus vindicated Epicurus's remedy for melancholy Epicures, atheists, hypocrites how mad, and melancholy Epithalamium Equivocations of melancholy; of jealousy Eunuchs why kept, and where Evacuations, how they cause melancholy Exercise if immoderate, cause of melancholy; before meals wholesome; exercise rectified; several kinds, when fit; exercises of the mind Exotic and strange simples censured Extasies Eyes main instruments of love; love's darts, seats, orators, arrows, torches; how they pierce F. Face's prerogative, a most attractive part Fairies Fasting cause of melancholy; a cure of love-melancholy; abused, the devil's instrument; effects of it Fear cause of melancholy, its effects; fear of death, destinies foretold; a symptom of melancholy; sign of love-melancholy; antidote to fear Fenny fowl, melancholy Fiery devils Fire's rage Fish, what melancholy Fish good Fishes in love Fishing and fowling, how and when good exercise Flaxen hair a great motive of love Fools often beget wise men; by love become wise Force of imagination Friends a cure of melancholy Fruits causing melancholy; allowed Fumitory purgeth melancholy G. Gaming a cause of melancholy, his effects Gardens of simples where, to what end Gardens for pleasure General toleration of religion, by whom permitted, and why Gentry, whence it came first; base without means; vices accompanying it; true gentry, whence; gentry commended Geography commended Geometry, arithmetic, algebra, commended Gesture cause of love-melancholy Gifts and promises of great force amongst lovers God's just judgment cause of melancholy; sole cause sometimes Gold good against melancholy; a most beautiful object Good counsel a charm to melancholy; good counsel for lovesick persons; against melancholy itself; for such as are jealous Great men most part dishonest Gristle what Guts described H. Hand and paps how forcible in love-melancholy Hard usage a cause of jealousy Hatred cause of melancholy Hawking and hunting why good Head melancholy's causes; symptoms; its cure Hearing, what Heat immoderate, cause of melancholy Health a treasure Heavens penetrable; infinitely swift Hell where Hellebore, white and black, purgers of melancholy; black, its virtues and history Help from friends against melancholy Hemorrhage cause of melancholy Hemorrhoids stopped cause of melancholy Herbs causing melancholy; curing melancholy Hereditary diseases Heretics their conditions; their symptoms Heroical love's pedigree, power, extent; definition, part affected; tyranny Hippocrates' jealousy Honest objects of love Hope a cure of misery; its benefits Hope and fear, the Devil's main engines to entrap the world Hops good against melancholy Horseleeches how and when used in melancholy Hot countries apt and prone to jealousy How oft 'tis fit to eat in a day How to resist passions How men fall in love Humours, what they are Hydrophobia described Hypochondriacal melancholy; its causes inward, outward; symptom; cure of it Hypochondries misaffected, causes Hypocrites described I. Idleness a main cause of melancholy; of love-melancholy; of jealousy Ignorance the mother of devotion Ignorance commended Ignorant persons still circumvented Imagination what; its force and effects Imagination of the mother affects her infant Immaterial melancholy Immortality of the soul proved; impugned by whom Impediments of lovers Importunity and opportunity cause of love-melancholy; of jealousy Imprisonment cause of melancholy Impostures of devils; of politicians; of priests Impotency a cause of jealousy Impulsive cause of man's misery Incubi and succubi Inconstancy of lovers Inconstancy a sign of melancholy Infirmities of body and mind, what grievances they cause Injuries and abuses rectified Instrumental causes of diseases Instrumental cause of man's misery Interpreters of dreams Inundation's fury Inventions resulting from love Inward causes of melancholy Inward senses described Issues when used in melancholy J. Jealousy a symptom of melancholy; defined, described; of princes; of brute beasts; causes of it; symptoms of it; prognostics; cure of it Jests how and when to be used Jews' religious symptoms Joy in excess cause of melancholy K. Kings and princes' discontents Kissing a main cause of love-melancholy; a symptom of love-melancholy L. Labour, business, cure of love-melancholy; Lapis Armenus , its virtues against melancholy Lascivious meats to be avoided Laughter, its effects Laurel a purge for melancholy Laws against adultery Leo Decimus the pope's scoffing tricks Lewellyn prince of Wales, his submission Leucata petra the cure of lovesick persons Liberty of princes and great men, how abused Libraries commended Liver its site; cause of melancholy distempers, if hot or cold Loss of liberty, servitude, imprisonment, cause of melancholy Losses in general how they offend; cause of despair; how eased Love of gaming and pleasures immoderate, cause of melancholy Love of learning, overmuch study, cause of melancholy Love's beginning, object, definition, division; love made the world; love's power; in vegetables; in sensible creatures; love's power in devils and spirits; in men; love a disease; a fire; love's passions; phrases of lovers; their vain wishes and attempts; lovers impudent; courageous; wise, valiant, free; neat in apparel; poets, musicians, dancers; love's effects; love lost revived by sight; love cannot be compelled Love and hate symptoms of religious melancholy Lycanthropia described M. Madness described; the extent of melancholy; a symptom and effect of love-melancholy Made dishes cause melancholy Magicians how they cause melancholy; how they cure it Mahometans their symptoms Maids', nuns', and widows' melancholy Man's excellency, misery Man the greatest enemy to man Many means to divert lovers; to cure them Marriage if unfortunate cause of melancholy; best cure of love-melancholy; marriage helps; miseries; benefits and commendation Mathematical studies commended Medicines select for melancholy; against wind and costiveness; for love-melancholy Melancholy in disposition, melancholy equivocations; definition, name, difference; part and parties affected in melancholy, it's affection; matter; species or kinds of melancholy; melancholy an hereditary disease; meats causing it, &c.; antecedent causes; particular parts; symptoms of it; they are passionate above measure; humorous; melancholy, adust symptoms; mixed symptoms of melancholy with other diseases; melancholy, a cause of jealousy; of despair; melancholy men why witty; why so apt to laugh, weep, sweat, blush; why they see visions, hear strange noises; why they speak untaught languages, prophesy, &c. Memory his seat Menstruus concubitus causa melanc. — from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Mucho antes todavía, el derecho de copiado duraba 28 años (más una extensión de 28 años si uno la pedía antes de la expiración del plazo), y este último a su vez, ya había substituído un copyright de 14 años (más una extensión de 14 años si uno la pedía antes de la expiración del plazo). — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Sed ut locus procul
Sed ut locus procul muro satis aequus agendis vineis fuit, ita haudquaquam prospere, 5 postquam ad effectum operis ventum est, coeptis succedebat. — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
save us long pursuit
Arm, Warriours, arm for fight; the foe at hand, Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit This day; fear not his flight; so thick a cloud He comes, and settled in his face I see Sad resolution, and secure: Let each His adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his helm, gripe fast his orbed shield, Borne even or high; for this day will pour down, If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower, But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire. — from Paradise Lost by John Milton
save us long pursuit
Arme, Warriours, Arme for fight, the foe at hand, Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit This day, fear not his flight; so thick a Cloud He comes, and settl'd in his face I see 540 Sad resolution and secure: let each His Adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his Helme, gripe fast his orbed Shield, Born eevn or high, for this day will pour down, If I conjecture aught, no drizling showr, But ratling storm of Arrows barbd with fire. — from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
The tripartite character of the half-stanza and the popular origin of the stanza was shown long ago by Wolf, Über die Lais, Sequenzen und Leiche , p. 27 (cf. Engl. — from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper
Tears are womanly; and I have since seen them shed, under less provocation, by fairer-skinned women than this simple, swarthy daughter of Mexico. — from A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams
sent up little prayers
It is hardly necessary to say that right there was one order in the State department that was immediately re [124] voked, while some twenty thousand clerks and stenographers who form the working staff of official Washington sent up little prayers of thanksgiving. — from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford
some unassorted law papers
Mary Livingston's name appears by the side of the following objects in the original document, which was discovered among some unassorted law papers in the Register House, in August, 1854:— — from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé
settled upon literary pursuits
She was extremely proud of the new accomplishment, and would have read constantly if Miss Watts had not settled upon literary pursuits as the reward of virtue. — from The Cricket by Marjorie Benton Cooke
The sentiment of loyalty is expressed with something like fanaticism in La Banda y la flor and in Guárdate del agua mansa ; and with something unpleasantly like profanity in the auto sacramental entitled El Indulto general where the lamentable Charles II. seems to be placed almost on the same level as the Saviour. — from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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