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He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.
John Aubrey
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John Aubrey
Age: 71 †
Born: 1626
Born: March 12
Died: 1697
Died: June 7
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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 in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.
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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, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it which disturbed the King, but cured him.
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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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There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.
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Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
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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 why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
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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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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, Box about: twill come to my father anon.
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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
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