Brief Lives, Vol. 1 ", has been considered a very important part of the human history, but is currently not available in printed formats. Hence so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format so that it is never forgotten and always remembered by the present and future generations. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is c...
Brief Lives, Vol. 2 ", has been considered a very important part of the human history, but is currently not available in printed formats. Hence so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format so that it is never forgotten and always remembered by the present and future generations. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is c...
Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique style, a blend of facts--names, dates, family, important works--and personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his skills for research and conversation to compile. Unpublished during his lifetime, the text was pieced together from extensive handwritten m...
Somewhere between Plutarch and today's tabloid gossip, Brief Lives is a timeless and strange collection of biographies, tales, and hearsay concerning some of early-modern Britain's greatest thinkers and public figures. At times rigorous, at others scandalous, these vignettes are as informative as they are entertaining, humanizing such hallowed individuals as William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, and Sir Walter Raleigh.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living." -John AubreyBrief Lives-Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 is a collection of short, colorful, gossipy biographies written by John Aubrey in the last part of the 17th century. It took two centuries, however, before Aubrey received real recognition as a great biographer. It was in 1898 that Reve...
Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living." -John AubreyBrief Lives-Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 is a collection of short, colorful, gossipy biographies written by John Aubrey in the last part of the 17th century. It took two centuries, however, before Aubrey received real recognition as a great biographer. It was in 1898 that Reve...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Mr. Ashmole told me, that a woman made use of a spell to cure an ague, by the advice of Dr. Nepier, a minister came to her, and severely repremanded her, for making use of a diabolical help, and told her, she was in danger of damnation for it, and commanded her to burn it. She did so, and her distemper returned severely, insomuch that she was importunate with the Doctor to use the same again, she used it, and had ease. But the parson hearing o...
At Crudwell, neer to the mannour house, is a fine spring in the street called Bery-well. Labourers say it quenches thirst better than the other waters, as to my tast, it seemed to have aliquantulum aciditatis, and perhaps is vitriolate. The towne, a mannour of the Lord Lucas, hath its denomination from this well, perhaps it is called Crudwell from its turning of milke into cruds.
