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Of retention and evacuation, there be divers kinds, which are either concomitant, assisting, or sole causes many times of melancholy.... In the first rank of these, I may well reckon up costiveness, and keeping in of our ordinary excrements, which as it often causeth other diseases, so this of melancholy in particular."
Eyw.
— Mar 15, 2015 12:29AM
Eyw.
Gregsamsa
is on page 209 of 1392
A whole lot of this text is more convincing than the copy in pharmaceutical ads.
— Apr 23, 2014 06:29PM
Gregsamsa
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This book makes one wonder if the complex foundations upon which modern science is built are as limiting as they are enabling. This guy reaches some serious peaks of rational thought with so little to go on.
— Jan 20, 2014 11:33AM
Gregsamsa
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I think at my next doctor's visit I'm going to use terminology from this book as if I'm quoting a recent article in JAMA
— Jan 12, 2014 05:24AM
Gregsamsa
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I have to face the fact that I will likely never give this a cover-to-cover reading. But I'll give it a shot. Future page-updates will be skip-around LIES.
— Dec 26, 2013 03:19PM
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This is an odd thing: to my very very American eyes and ears, British English this old-ass is more familiar and easy-reedy than actual pre-American Americans from the same time. Read summa them Maryland accounts or Puritan preechies, it's like they all furrin n shit.
Gregsamsa wrote: "This is an odd thing: to my very very American eyes and ears, British English this old-ass is more familiar and easy-reedy than actual pre-American Americans from the same time. Read summa them M..."Ummm, I think the educational standards where muchmuch higher in England at the time? Harvard Dept of Classics hadn't really gotten its fire going yet, had it?
Yeah, I assume the diff is between professional writers and just reg folx' scribblin', but the Puritans had a much higher literacy rate than your average Constance or Justice back then. It's odd how, when paper was a premium product, those Puritans would NOT SHUT UP. Seriously. I found this 1630's eel stew recipe that just went on and on and on and on with all sortsa tangential would-you-shut-up information, way past the extra length that'd be obviated by primitive cooking means (throw that shit in a pot hanging on the iron arm in the livingroom/kitchen/den/home and swing that arm over the fire). This recipe recommended topics for conversation while simmering, one being the New World's different woods for house and furniture. Thanks!
Gregsamsa wrote: "a much higher literacy rate than your average Constance or Justice back then"But how much beyond the bible and milton did their reading extend? I mean, Burton was writing at the high point of the whole humanist=classics thing.
But the thing about just going on and not=shutting up ; the economy of the word is the last skill learned in composition and rhetoric, like jokes and poetry are last (and first) understood in a foreign language learning.
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