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	Robert Burton - LoveToKnow 1911
		ROBERT BURTON (1577-1640),), English writer, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy, son of a country gentleman, Ralph Burton, was born at Lindley in Leicestershire on the 8th of February 1576-7.
		A Latin comedy, Philosophaster, originally written by Robert Burton in 1606 and acted at Christ Church in 1617, was long supposed to be lost; but in 1862 it was.printed for the Roxburghe Club from a manuscript belonging to the Rev. W.
		The enthusiasm of Burton's admirers will not be chilled by the disparagement of unsympathetic critics (Macaulay and Hallam among them) who have consulted his pages in vain; but through good and evil report he will remain, their well-loved companion to the end.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Burton (1143 words)

	Robert Burton (scholar) Summary
		The English scholar and clergyman Robert Burton (1577-1640) wrote "The Anatomy of Melancholy," an analysis of the symptoms, causes, and cures of the melancholic temperament.
		Robert Burton was born at Lindley, Leicestershire, on Feb. 8, 1577.
		Robert Burton is known for The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), a lengthy treatise on the causes and treatment of melancholy that became one of the most popular English books of the early seventeenth century.
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Burton_(scholar) (339 words)

	Robert Burton (scholar) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert Burton (February 8, 1577 â“ January 25, 1640) was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing '' The Anatomy of Melancholy ''.
		Born at Lindley, Leicestershire, Burton spent most of his life at Oxford, first as a pupil at Brasenose College, and then as a student (the equivalent of a fellow at other Oxford and Cambridge colleges) of Christ Church.
		Burton's burial in Christ Cathedral Church, Oxford, evinces that rumors of his suicide by hanging are unfounded.
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	Robert Burton
		Robert Burton (1577-1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University (Brasenose College), whose chief claim to fame is for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy.
		Burton spent most of his life at Oxford, where he was a fellow of Brasenose College.
		He studied a large number of diverse subjects, many of which made their way into the study of melancholia for which he is chiefly famous.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Robert_Burton.html (155 words)

	§2. "The Anatomy of Melancholy". XIII. Robert Burton, John Barclay and John Owen. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir ...
		Burton’s is one of those minds whose interest in human emotion, conduct and character expresses itself in a meditative, rather than in a dramatic, form.
		Burton’s humour is pervasive and inseparably intertwined with his irony and the kindly commonsense of his attitude to life.
		The attitude of a typical scholar of the day has been summed up by his modern biographer, “If a great writer has said a thing, it is so.” 3 It was the fashion of the time to quote by way of proof or illustration, in talk, in writing, from the pulpit.
	www.bartleby.com /214/1302.html (1030 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert Burton (scholar)
		Robert Burton (February 8, 1577 – January 25, 1640) was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy.
		Burton was a mathematician and dabbled in astrology.
		Burton's burial in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, evinces that rumors of his suicide by hanging are unfounded.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Robert_Burton_(scholar) (556 words)

	Burton, Robert - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Burton, Robert 1577-1640, English clergyman and scholar, b.
		Burton's prose style is informal, anecdotal, and thoroughly idiosyncratic, and he includes quotations from a wide range of literature—the Bible, the classics, the Elizabethan authors.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-burtonrbt.html (317 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Anatomy of Melancholy.: Books: Robert Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Burton may have seemed like a raving madman to some, but he was a man obsessed with a love for the English language...and it shows.
		Burton is not a writer for fops and milquetoasts.
		Burton sometimes has a great deal of fun in his marginal glosses, and you will miss them if you are not careful.
	www.amazon.ca /Anatomy-Melancholy-Robert-Burton/dp/0404078222 (2287 words)

	All In The Mind - 24 April 2004 - The Anatomy of Melancholy
		Sue Clark: Robert Burton was born in 1577 and lived and worked for most of his life as a clergyman and scholar at Oxford.
		Robert Burton really wants the return to the ideal of moderation, of leaders thinking through the consequences of their action and not leading their soldiers to needless bloodshed and you know, loss of life.
		Burton's text is deeply indebted to these authors and others who also wrote about the workings of the soul such as Galen and the mediaeval Arabic authors (such as) al-Razi.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/allinthemind/stories/2004/1090845.htm (3791 words)

	Hooke Robert: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Psychiatry of Robert Burton The Psychiatry of Robert Burton by BERGEN EVANS in consultation with GEORGE...Preface It is now more than three hundred years since Robert Burton shipwrecked his life upon "the vile rock of melancholy...
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		Marvel at the stunning interior of the house which was designed in 1680 by Robert Hooke, and explore the 400 acres of parkland, woods and landscaped gardens.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/hooke_robert.jsp (1521 words)

	Robert Burton
		English writer, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy, son of a country gentleman, Ralph Burton, was born at Lindley in Leicestershire on the 8th of February 1576-7.
		A Latin comedy, Philosophaster, originally written by Robert Burton in 1606 and acted at Christ Church in 1617, was long supposed to be lost; but in 1862 it was printed for the Roxburghe Club from a manuscript belonging to the Rev. W.
		Burton was forever engaged in revising his treatise.
	www.nndb.com /people/194/000102885 (1065 words)

	AllRefer.com - Robert Burton (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert Burton, English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biographies
		Robert Burton 1577–1640, English clergyman and scholar, b.
		Burton's prose style is informal, anecdotal, and thoroughly idiosyncratic, and he includes quotations from a wide range of literature : the Bible, the classics, the Elizabethan authors.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BurtonRbt.html (293 words)

	The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
		Upon completing the first folio in 1621, Burton was confident that his readers would take the subject as seriously as he did himself.
		Burton builds his arguments and his explanations by constantly referring to what others have said before.
		Burton himself, in his lifelong melancholy fit, could not help but constantly add to the text.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/divphil/burtonr.htm (2523 words)

	ROBERT BURTON (1577-1640) - Online Information article about ROBERT BURTON (1577-1640)
		Robert Burton in 1606 and acted at Christ Church in 1617, was See also:
		Buckley, who edited it with elaborate care and appended a collection of the academical exercises that Burton had contributed to various Oxford miscellanies (" Natalia," " Parentalia," andc.).
		body and mind " he dwells gleefully on the pleasures of country life, and on the content that scholars find in the pursuit of their favourite studies.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BUN_CAL/BURTON_ROBERT_1577_1640_.html (1982 words)

	The Anatomy of Melancholy - Advertisement to the last London edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert Burton was the son of Ralph Burton, of an ancient and genteel family at Lindley, in Leicestershire, and was born there on the 8th of February 1576.
		His body, with due solemnity, was buried near that of Dr. Robert Weston, in the north aisle which joins next to the choir of the cathedral of Christ Church, on the 27th of January 1639-40.
		BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, a book once the favourite of the learned and the witty, and a source of surreptitious learning, though written on a regular plan, consists chiefly of quotations: the author has honestly termed it a cento.
	www.psyplexus.com /burton/1.htm (2715 words)

	Jie Gao - Research
		Robert Burton (1577-1640) in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621-51) quotes Didacus Stella,
		Later editors of Burton's misattributed the quote to Lucan.
		Google Scholar has adopted "stand on the shoulders of giants" as its motto.
	research.bus.wisc.edu /jgao (196 words)

	robert burton - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Psychiatry of Robert Burton The Psychiatry of Robert Burton by BERGEN EVANS in consultation with GEORGE J...Preface It is now more than three hundred years since Robert Burton shipwrecked his life upon "the vile rock of melancholy...
		THE ANATOMY OF ROBERT BURTONS ENGLAND THE ANATOMY OF ROBERT BURTONS ENGLAND By William R. Mueller UNIVERSITY...
		Robert Burton s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) offers a varied, virtually...and intellectual preoccupations of the 17th cent.
	www.questia.com /search/robert-burton (1661 words)

	Amazon.com: The Anatomy of Melancholy: Books: Robert Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Instead the intrepid reader finds that Burton has attempted what we now know to be the impossible: to master the sum total of human knowledge in one book.
		Astoundingly, Burton did not know that it was impossible, so he went ahead and tried anyway.
		Burton's love of learning and his dry and droll wit excuse his failure to such an extent that we do not even care that he failed.
	www.amazon.com /Anatomy-Melancholy-Robert-Burton/dp/0394724224 (2541 words)

	Robert Burton (scholar) Criticism
		Burton's “fragmenting of the categories of phenomena” in this manner, and his “identification of cause, symptom, and cure,” she maintains, universalizes melancholy “into the whole condition of humanity.”
		In the essay below, Schleiner addresses Burton's treatment of same-sex relationships in The Anatomy of Melancholy, examining how Burton's use of the rhetorical device praeteritio might distinguish his own perspective from among his many sources.
		In the following essay, Tillman compares Burton's satiric style in his preface to The Anatomy of Melancholy to Horatian and Juvenalian satire, emphasizing the classical origins of the work's rhetorical personae rather than seventeenth-century concerns about the self and the stability of the authorial voice.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Robert_Burton_(scholar) (670 words)

	November 1999 Library News
		Burton began with a lengthy preface, "Democritus to the Reader," in which he explained his reasons for using a pseudonym.
		From a medical point of view, melancholy indicated a primary condition of the brain, possibly centered in the "hypochondrial" regions, but Burton made the modern claim that melancholy was both a spiritual malady and a physical infirmity, requiring the combined assistance of physician and priest.
		Burton was famous for having predicted the year of his own death from calculations based on his horoscope, and the heavens he described as "an excellent harp made by an eminent workman, on which he that can but play will make most admirable music."
	www.library.uthscsa.edu /publications/libnews/1999/ln9911.html (3174 words)

	Robert Burton quote - A mere scholar, a mere ass. - Quotations Book
		Robert Burton quote - A mere scholar, a mere ass.
		And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking >>
		A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
	www.quotationsbook.com /quotes/35067/view (141 words)

	All in the Mind: 24 April 2004 - The Anatomy of Melancholy
		People’s lives were being turned upside down and Burton’s book struck a popular cord.
		But on the other hand we have to remember that what’s Burton reading about — he’s actually reading about melancholy, he’s reading about the condition that he says he has himself.
		Certainly Burton does not begin us on that path, that path has begun sometime before.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/mind/stories/s1090845.htm (3782 words)

	The Student's Problem
		Instead I shall begin by referring to a book which is a compendium of the traditional wisdom concerning the nature of human unhappiness, written when the human soul had not yet become a "field" for experts.
		In the beginning of the seventeenth century an English scholar, Robert Burton, wrote for his own relief and for the comfort of his friends a book called The Anatomy of Melancholy, in which everyone may find his particular misery acknowledged as a human condition.
		Melancholy, however peculiar and complex it may be, is essentially the sometimes paralyzing and sometimes frenzying dread of "missing out," which comes to those who have had tantalizing intimations of early happiness.
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	Robert Burton - Moviefone
		Born at Lindley, Leicestershire, Burton spent most of his life at Oxford,...
		Robert Burton (scholar) (1577-1640), English scholar and cleric, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy; Robert Burton (statesman) (1747-1825), North Carolina...
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	movies.aol.com /celebrity/robert-burton/227867/main (107 words)

	The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy
		English churchman and scholar Robert Burton (1576-1639) was a passionate student of medicine, history, literature, and science--the whole of human knowledge.
		For this edition, the editors carefully selected those passages containing the most psychological and general interest, eliminating a good deal of nonessential material, but retaining the incomparable wit, eccentric charm, imagination, and richness of thought of the original.
		In short, readers will find here the essence of Burton's vast book--the passages which, according to W. Rouse, reveal the author's "eternal freshness, his own ingenuous interest, [and] his boyish delight in a good story." Unabridged republicaton of "Burton the Anatomist, originally published by George H. Doran Company, New York, 1924.
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