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American politician (1747-1825)

Person · Open Library

Born
1577
Died
1640
Works
127

Top works

  • The Anatomy of Love
  • The anatomy of melancholy : what it is with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it in three partitions
  • A Full view of all the diseases incident to children
  • Melancholy anatomised
  • Ioan. Stvrmii, et Gymnasii Argentoratensis Lvctus

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1943-01-23
avant-garde jazzcontemporary jazzjazzjazz and bluesjazz fusionpost-bop

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
74
Total plays
353

Robert Burton, age 19, is an upcoming songwriter in the college town of San Luis Obispo. His music is mostly acoustic and compares to artists such as the Rocket Summer, Making April, Chase Coy, Daphne Loves Derby, and Secondhand Serenade. He was born in the Bay Area of California and started music around age 16. And while he is getting a degree at Cal Poly, he hopes one day to be able to play music for a living. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Burton">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • All my joys to this are follyNaught so sweet as melancholy.
  • A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
  • The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
  • I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.
  • I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.
  • They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

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Wikidata facts

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date of birth
1747-10-20
date of death
1825-05-31
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