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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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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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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…
— John Aubrey
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
— Jonathan Swift
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them…
— William Hazlitt
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God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face,…
— Boethius
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His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse...
— William Shakespeare
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We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees,…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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