"This Earle of Oxford, making of his low……" — John Aubrey
"This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart."
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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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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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Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him,…
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More Abashed Quotes
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For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I…
— Thomas Merton
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an…
— Jean-Henri Fabre
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The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined…
— John Milton
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I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I…
— Connie Brockway
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You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a…
— Claudia Gray
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Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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