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  • Ut nullus non execretur et admiretur crudelitatem, et barbaram insaniam, quae inter homines eodem sub caelo natos, ejusdem linguae, sanguinis, religionis, exercebator.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Liberae unius horae insaniam aeterno temporis taedio pensant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Acco, an old woman, seeing by chance her face in a true glass (for she used false flattering glasses belike at other times, as most gentlewomen do,) animi dolore in insaniam delapsa est, (Caelius Rhodiginus l. 17, c. 2,) ran mad.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Illorum quoque hominum, a quorum consortio abhorrent, praesentia amovenda, nec sermonibus ingratis obtudendi; si quis insaniam ab insania sic curari aestimet, et proterve utitur, magis quam aeger insanit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vita ejus Puellae, amore septuagenarius senex usque ad insaniam correptus, multis liberis susceptis: multi non sine pudore conspexerunt senem et philosophum podagricium, non sine risu saltantem ad tibiae modos.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Haec passio durans sanguinem torridum et atrabiliarum reddit; ale vero ad cerebrum delatus, insaniam parat, vigilia et crebro desiderio exsiccans.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Lycanthropia, which Avicenna calls cucubuth, others lupinam insaniam, or wolf-madness, when men run howling about graves and fields in the night, and will not be persuaded but that they are wolves, or some such beasts.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • If Democritus were alive now, and should but see the superstition of our age, our [269] religious madness, as [270] Meteran calls it, Religiosam insaniam, so many professed

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Dyonisio: the second makes merry, the third for pleasure, quarta, ad insaniam, the fourth makes them mad.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quidam prae verecundia simul et dolore in insaniam incidunt, eo quod a literatorum gradu in examine excluduntur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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