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«He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, carried always a notebook in his pocket, and as soon as a thought darted, he presently entered it into his book, or otherwise he might perhaps ha»
Author: John Aubrey
(Writer)
| Keywords:
contemplated, darted, Hobbes, horn, notebook, notebooks, presently, Thomas, Thomas Hobbes
«It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.»
«Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.»
«And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.»
«And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.»
«A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.»
«Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.»
«Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing /to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.»
«Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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accustomed, at ease, governors, indiscriminate, petitioner, presently, redress, redressing, request, wrongs
«Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms not enough for us»
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