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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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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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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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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them…
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Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
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Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret…
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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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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives,
— Philip Larkin
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It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale,…
— Robert Musil
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
— Tacitus
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