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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... obliged to you for the great civilities you are pleased to use to me in it . For that which you desire my answer unto : if your public register * Of this eminent man it is observed by Wood , that " his person was handsome and gigantic ...
... obliged to you for the great civilities you are pleased to use to me in it . For that which you desire my answer unto : if your public register * Of this eminent man it is observed by Wood , that " his person was handsome and gigantic ...
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... obliging recommendation , not to the value of the offering itself , which in truth holds * Walter Charleton was one of the physicians in ordinary to Charles the First and Second . " I think , " says Wood , " he hath been some few years ...
... obliging recommendation , not to the value of the offering itself , which in truth holds * Walter Charleton was one of the physicians in ordinary to Charles the First and Second . " I think , " says Wood , " he hath been some few years ...
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... obliged to submit . I told the Bishops that put him upon it , what streights they had brought me into either of taking a degree , whose dignity I was not able to support in my own country , or * The Duke of Lauderdale , high ...
... obliged to submit . I told the Bishops that put him upon it , what streights they had brought me into either of taking a degree , whose dignity I was not able to support in my own country , or * The Duke of Lauderdale , high ...
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... obliged to the great and worthy men that remember me . I entreat that you will return my humble service in such terms as you think will befit me . As to what concerns Mr. Cornwallis , I only can write , that if he would make good here ...
... obliged to the great and worthy men that remember me . I entreat that you will return my humble service in such terms as you think will befit me . As to what concerns Mr. Cornwallis , I only can write , that if he would make good here ...
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... oblige me to see if you have at Oxford Nigelli Speculum Stultorum : the man was Chanter of Canterbury almost 500 years ago . My edition is at Paris , 1506. You will be pleased mightily at the sight of it ; and I will give it you shortly ...
... oblige me to see if you have at Oxford Nigelli Speculum Stultorum : the man was Chanter of Canterbury almost 500 years ago . My edition is at Paris , 1506. You will be pleased mightily at the sight of it ; and I will give it you shortly ...
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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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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 382 - He was very communicative, and willing to instruct any that were modest and respectfull to him. And in order to my journey...
Side 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.
Side 237 - A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Scholars of Winchester College and all other Devout Christians.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.