#loseth

[noctilucents]

[...] and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise. Neither doth this weakness appear to others only, and not to the party loved; but to the loved most of all, except the love be reciproque. For it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt. By how much the more, men ought to beware of this passion, which loseth not only other things, but itself!

Francis Bacon, 'Of Love', Essays.

[noctilucents]

For if a Loadstone be made red hot, it loseth the magnetical vigour it had before in it self, and acquires another from the Earth in its refrigeration; for that part which cooleth toward the Earth will acquire the respect of the North, and attract the Southern point or cuspis of the Needle.

Thomas Browne, 'Concerning the Loadstone', Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

[noctilucents]

When a poor man hath made many hungry meals, got together a small sum, which he loseth in an instant; a scholar spent many an hour's study to no purpose, his labours lost, &c., how should it otherwise be?

Robert Burton,'A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, &c.', The Anatomy of Melancholy.

[noctilucents]

Loseth

By chance (or not, for who can tell these things?) Z. keeps coming across the word loseth.

[retroblogg]

1971: Kjaperud og resten av den norske monster-gruppa Titanic, her i et opptak på fransk TV.