"The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant……" — John Aubrey
"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."
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John Aubrey
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15 Quotes by John Aubrey
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he…
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How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
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Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
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I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
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If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection…
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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents,…
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by…
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The # zodiac sign on the # Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that…
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I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career I want to be true…
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If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh…
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I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that…
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all…
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Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have…
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When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist…
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