Robert Burton on Books
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Robert Burton, catalogued under books, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Robert Burton, entry #98382: "Though they write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books."
Attributed to Robert Burton, entry #179099: "They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works."
4 Quotes by Robert Burton on Books
"Though they write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books."
"They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works."
"Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves."
"Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain…. And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on."