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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Author:Thomas Hearne Title: 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 Subtitle: The Whole Now First Published From the Originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, With... more » Biographical and Literary Illustrations ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1813 Original Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Subjects: English letters Great Britain Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Europe / General History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Collections / Letters Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: JLjhink the best remedy for your corpulency would be the gout for two or three months. But I hear you can%valk up Heddington Hill, and want no such advice. - An ounce of mustard seed bruised, and steep'd two of three days in a quart of white irine gives me great relief, as to my shortness of breath. A beer glass every morning fasting is1 an.' fleitual cute. I am your most affectionate and humble servt. Tho. Wool);- LETTER CXX1V. ROBERT KECK to T. HEARNE. WicklifiVs Translation of the New Testament. -- Queen Elizabeth's Vanity. SIR, After my writing to you from Bath, I did not return to town till November, Cousin to Anthony Wood, and fellow of New College, by which society he was presented to the Rectory of Hard- wick, Bucks, in 1704. He was the author of " An Institute of the Laws of England," folio, and of an anonymous pamphlet entitled " An Appendixto the Lifef Bi...« less