John Aubrey Quotes

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• Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face.…
• He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
• Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square…
• I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize,…
• About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,…
• The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
• Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore…
• This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed…
• How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
• Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
• I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
• If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not…
• Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming…
• The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
• How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

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