1624

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No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people Man as social animal

Author

John Donne

Source

Meditation XVII Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1624 1620s 17th century

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

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Topic

Nature of death Death

Author

John Donne

Source

Meditation XVII Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1624 1620s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Henry Wotton

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Henry Wotton

Source

Elements of Architecture

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1624 1620s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wotton, Henry. Elements of Architecture. London: John Bill, 1624, pt. 1.