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" being exact, several of the students did not forbear to whisper among themselves, that rather than there should be a mistake in the calculation, he sent up his soul to heaven through a slip about his neck. "
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by William Younger Fletcher - 1902 - 448 pages
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...Oxford ; where, in his chamber in Christ-church College, he departed this life, at or very near the time which he had some years before foretold, from the calculation of his own nativity, and which, says Wood, " being exact, several of the students did not forbear to whisper among themselves,...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 1

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...Oxford ; where, in his chamber in Christ-church College, he departed this life, at or very near the time which he had some years before foretold, from the calculation of his own nativity, and which, says Wood, " being exact, several of the students did not forbear to whisper among themselves,...
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The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior, Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...Oxford; where, in his chamber in Christ-church College, he departed this life, at or very near the time which he had some years before foretold, from the calculation of his own nativity, and which, says Wood, " being exact, several of the students did not forbear to whisper among themselves,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...George, Lord Berkeley. He died at his college of Christ Church, in 16:39-40, at or very near the time which he had some years before foretold, from the calculation of his own nativity. " The time," says Wood, " bejng exact, several of the students did not forbear to whisper among themselves,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...George, Lord Berkeley. He died at his college of Christ Church, in 1639-40, at or very near the time which he had some years before foretold., from the calculation of his own nativity. "The time," says Wood, " being exact, several of the students did not forbear to whisper among themselves,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...George, Lord Berkeley. He died at his college of Christ Church, in 1639-40, at or very near the time which he had some years before foretold, from the calculation of his * S own nativity. ?' The time," says Wood, " being exact, several of the students did not forbear to...
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Liber facetiarum, being a collection of curious and interesting anecdotes

Liber - Anecdotes - 1809 - 372 pages
...had some years before foretold, from 19 the calculation of his own nativity, and which, saysr Wood, " being exact, several of the students did not forbear...there should be a mistake in the calculation, he sent his soul to heaven through a slip about his neck." This may not be true; but it seems obscurely hinted...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...years before foretold, from ^he calculation of his own nativity. " The time," says Wood, " ber ing exact, several of the students did not forbear to...in the calculation, he sent up his soul to heaven through a slip about his neck." The Anatomy of Melancholy is written under the assumed name of Democritus...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 90

England - 1861 - 814 pages
...that, as we are told by Antony Wood (who never misses an opportunity of saying an ill-natured thing), " several of the students did not forbear to whisper...should be a mistake in the calculation, he sent up nis soul to heaven through a slip about his neck." He was buried, as we have seen, in the cathedral,...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1821 - 612 pages
...Oxford ; where in his chamber in Christ-church College, he departed this life, at or very near the time which he had some years before foretold, from the calculation of his own nativity, and which, says Wood, " being exact, several of the students did not forbear to whisper / among themselves,...
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