AS IT PROCEEDS FROM

THE DISPOSITION AND HABIT,
THE PASSION OF LOVE,

AND

THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION.

DRAWN CHIEFLY FROM

THE CELEBRATED WORK

12.8

:

hert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy;

AND. IN WHICH THE

KINDS CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND CURES

INTITLED

"Can'st thou not minis ter to a mind diseased,
"Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,

Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
"And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
" Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff
"Which weighs upon the heart?"

SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, A& V. Scene III.

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CHAP. I. Introduction

14

CHAP. II. The Definition, Affection, Matter

and Species of Melancholy

CHAP. III. Of the Caufes of Melancholy 30

CHAP. IV. The Confequences of Melancholy 164

CHAP. V. The Cure of Melancholy

173

223

CHAP. VI. Of Love Melancholy

CHAP. VII. Of Religious Melancholy.. 376

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