Showing posts with label Gideon Harvey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gideon Harvey. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

On the astonishment of the spectators

 
 
 
In hysterick women the rarity of symptoms doth oft strike an astonishment into spectators.

-- Gideon Harvey (c. 1640-c. 1700)

Sunday, March 18, 2012

"S" is for Seed Plot

 
The pestilent seminaries, according to their grossness or subtility, activity, or hebetude, cause more or less truculent plagues.

-- Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague