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It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.

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sir thomas brownes

Sir Thomas Browne, Samuel Johnson - 248 Seiten

...againft the "cold potion; and CATO, before he durft "give the fatal ftroke, fpent part of the night "in reading the Immortality of PLATO, "thereby confirming his wavering hand unto "the animofity of that attempt. "!T is the heavieft ftone that melancholy "can throw at man, to tell him...

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