Alicia Bell Quotes

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

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.

Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born. Upon the same day he conquered Darius, won a great victory at sea, and died the same day.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

I shall take particular notice here of the third of November, both because `tis my own birth day, and also for that I have observed some remarkable accidents to have happened thereupon.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.