| The mind most effectually works upon the body, producing by his passions and perturbations miraculous alterations, as melancholy, despair, cruel diseases, and sometimes death itself...They that live in fear are never free, resolute, secure, never merry, but in continual pain...It causeth oftimes sudden madness. -Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy |
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| Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy |
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| Thomas Lynch: The Undertaking |
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| M F K Fisher: The Gastronomical Me |
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| Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own Three Guineas The Common Reader |
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| H L Mencken: Treatise On the Gods |
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| William Hazlitt: Table Talk The Spirit of the Age |
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| John Stuart Mill: On Liberty The Subjection of Women |
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| Alice Thomas Ellis: Home Life I - IV |
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| Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus Puerisque |
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| Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici |
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| Shirley Robin Letwin: The Gentleman in Trollope |
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| E B White: This Is New York Collected Essays |
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| Lionel Trilling: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent |
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| Beryl Bainbridge: Something Happened Yesterday |
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| Roland Barthes: Mythologies |
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