["Often, compelled by the force of disease, some one as thunderstruck … — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["Often, compelled by the force of disease, some one as thunderstruck falls under our eyes, and foams, groans, and trembles, stretches, twists, breathes irregularly, and in paroxysms wears out his strength."--Lucretius, iii. 485.]

Place: CHAPTER VI · ¶1979
License: Public domain · Source
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