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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Literary Period:
"Civil War and Commonwealth"
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"Early Modern"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it Is; with All Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Several Cures of it"
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"Animals"
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"Government"
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Date: 1651
"Voluntary, the third, or intellective, which commands the other two in men, and is a curb unto them, or at least should be, but for the most part is captivated and overruled by them; and men are led like beasts by sense, giving reins to their concupiscence and several lusts."
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)