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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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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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He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
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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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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on…
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My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long,…
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He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually…
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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Does Patch have a restraining order against him?' he read. 'Is Patch a felon?' 'Give-me-that!' I hissed furiously. Patch gave a soft…
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One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of…
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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the…
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