On Melancholy (1729) [ Concepts ]
… is a Complication of continual and unintermitting Horrors, that spares neither Body nor Mind. When this Affection is far advanc’d into the Habit, the Patient appears to all that see him a moving Piece of Ruin, and wears his … and trembles to behold the Face of the Sun, from an Apprehension, that it insults his Misery." … Melancholy … Madness … Affection … Taken from Nicholas Robinson, A New System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy: Wherein …
Melancholy | Madness | Affection
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