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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…
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He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
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Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall…
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I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily…
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About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's…
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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have…
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This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so…
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Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.
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It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin with huge…
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This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.
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I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily…
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Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
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