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Le 'Vite brevi 'sono un prodotto tipico del barocco, che collocava l'arguzia al sommo tra le facoltà dell'ingegno, e la ricercava perfino negli aspetti della natura, sicché i casi arguti, spettacolari erano, secondo la frase di Baltasar Gracián a proposito degli emblemi e degli apologhi, come le pietre preziose nell'oro del discorso elegante. L'uomo-gazza, John Aubrey, colpiva col becco quelle cose luccicanti che erano gli aneddoti curiosi nel...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. W...

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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from...

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Excerpt from Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Vol. 2 of 2: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq. And Lives of Eminent Men, Part II Danversf (and only [son] by his second wife, Darteby) brother to H. E. Of Danby, preached at Lavington, in Wilts. Obijt 19'3novemb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

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Excerpt from Letters, Vol. 1 of 2: 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 MenMatthew tate, Vicar of Burnham. The Earl of Nottingham's Book against Whiston. - Ecclesiastical Discipline.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a...

Excerpt from Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme: 1686-87 The manuscript (lansdowne mss. Which is now for the first time printed in its entirety for the members of the folk-lore Society, has long been known to lovers of folklore, and more or less copious extracts from it have been published in at least three different works. Attention seems to have been first directed to it by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Henry Ellis, who made extracts from it in his...

Excerpt from Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Vol. 2 of 2: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., And Lives of Eminent MenWith great pleasure and satisfac tion I received and read all your very kind and very curious letters, for which I must be endebted to you, not having proper opportunitys or ineli nations, to give so full, or so c...

Excerpt from Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey, the subject of this brief notice, was born at Easton Pierse, (Parish of Kington, ) in Wiltshire, on the 12th of March, 1626, and not on the 3rd of November in that year, as stated by some of his biographers. He was the eldest son of Richard Aubrey, Esq. of Burleton, Herefordshire, and Broad Chalk, Wiltshire. Being, according to his own statement, "very weak, and like to dye, " he wa...

A series of essays, chiefly on the supernatural - from Omens to Oracle, via Impulses and Ecstasy, from this great writer and observer.

A fascinating survey from this characterful literary figure of the late 17th century

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