Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: to which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey, Esq: The Whole Now First Published from the Originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with Biographical and Literary Illustrations ...John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813 |
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... hope all these reasons considered , no candid man will think me guilty of temerity or ambition . I could say much more for myself , but the rest when we meet . It will at least be a month ere we return . I wish we may not tarry here all ...
... hope all these reasons considered , no candid man will think me guilty of temerity or ambition . I could say much more for myself , but the rest when we meet . It will at least be a month ere we return . I wish we may not tarry here all ...
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... hope he will take to learning , and become useful to his country and his relations . I dare not say to him , without a great allowance for my vanity , Disce puer virtutem ex me , verumque laborem ; Fortunam ex aliis . I give you many ...
... hope he will take to learning , and become useful to his country and his relations . I dare not say to him , without a great allowance for my vanity , Disce puer virtutem ex me , verumque laborem ; Fortunam ex aliis . I give you many ...
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... the most sure and safe remedy against all the calamities of human life . By God's great mercy to me I enjoy at present so firm and an unphysick'd health , that I hope to do somewhat before I die , that I may not seem to 20.
... the most sure and safe remedy against all the calamities of human life . By God's great mercy to me I enjoy at present so firm and an unphysick'd health , that I hope to do somewhat before I die , that I may not seem to 20.
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... hope I may live to accomplish . But I forget that I write now a letter , not a treatise . Pardon me upon the account that I am Your faithful friend and servant , Stratton , March 14 , 1691 . J. COTTON . SIR , LETTER XI . From the same ...
... hope I may live to accomplish . But I forget that I write now a letter , not a treatise . Pardon me upon the account that I am Your faithful friend and servant , Stratton , March 14 , 1691 . J. COTTON . SIR , LETTER XI . From the same ...
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... hope the spring now advancing apace , by the help of your friend Dr. Brady , with God's blessing upon his endea- vours , you will recover your former health and firm constitution . As for my library it is wholly 22 From the same to the ...
... hope the spring now advancing apace , by the help of your friend Dr. Brady , with God's blessing upon his endea- vours , you will recover your former health and firm constitution . As for my library it is wholly 22 From the same to the ...
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afterwards ancient answer Anthony Wood Antiquities Bishop Bishop of Oxford Bodleian Library Browne Willis Canterbury Catalogue chapel chaplain CHARLETT Coll concerning copy Cotton Library Creech curious Dean DEAR SIR death Demies desire died Duke Earl edition English favour Fellows friend and servant gave Gerard Langbaine give glad Gorlitz Greek hand hath hear Hearne HICKES History honour hope humble servant HUMFREY WANLEY King King's lady Latin learned LETTER lived London Lord Magdalen College Majesty matter morning Narcissus Marsh never obliged occasion Oxford Oxon paper person Peter Pett pleased pray present printed published received REVEREND SIR Saxon sent Servt shew Shottesbrooke Speculum Stultorum Stratton suppose tell thanks things thither thought tion told town trouble University College University of Oxford Vice Chancellor volume WANLEY wherein Wood words write written
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Сторінка 20 - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous, or remarkable on the defective side.
Сторінка 538 - This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about 18; and was an actor at one of the play-houses, and did act exceedingly well (now B.
Сторінка 147 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.
Сторінка 538 - Dreame,'1 he happened to take at Grendon, in Bucks, which is the roade from London to Stratford ; and there was living that constable about 1642, when I first came to Oxon. Mr. Jos. Howe is of that parish, and knew him. Ben Jonson and he did gather humours of men dayly, wherever they came.
Сторінка 382 - He was very communicative, and willing to instruct any that were modest and respectfull to him. And in order to my journey...
Сторінка 554 - Philip, so famous for men at armes, that 'twas then held as great a disgrace for a young gentleman to be seen riding in the street in a coach, as it would now for such a one to be seen in the streetes in a petticoate and wastcoate; so much is the fashion of the times nowe altered.
Сторінка 237 - A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Scholars of Winchester College and all other Devout Christians.
Сторінка 68 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Сторінка 519 - WR to talke of the anagramme of Dog." In his speech on the scaffold, I heard my cosen Whitney say (and I thinke 'tis printed) that he spake not one word of Christ, but of the great and incomprehensible God, with much zeale and adoration, so that he concluded he was an a-christ, not an atheist.
Сторінка 379 - Edge-hill with him ; and during the fight, the Prince and Duke of York were committed to his care. He told me that he withdrew with them under a hedge, and took out of his pocket a book and read ; but he had not read very long before a bullet of a great gun grazed on the ground near him, which made him remove his station.