An influential account of the circumstances of his death was given by John Aubrey's Brief Lives.

The work of Waller, along with John Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors and John Aubrey's Brief Lives, form the major near-contemporaneous biographical accounts of Hooke.

John Aubrey's confusion of the two persisted occasionally into late twentieth-century literature.

* Mathematician biographies in John Aubrey's Brief Lives

On 14 March 1673, Browne sent a short autobiography to the antiquarian John Aubrey, presumably for Aubrey's collection of Brief Lives, which provides an introduction to his life and writings.

For anecdotes of Suckling's life see John Aubrey's Brief Lives ( Clarendon Press ed., ii. 242 ).

According to John Aubrey's memoranda, Digby is supposed to have replied to concerns over Venetia's virtue with the comment that " A handsome lusty man that was discreet might make a virtuous wife out of a brothel-house.

The most widely known information about Venetia comes from John Aubrey's Brief Lives, but Aubrey mostly wrote down hearsay.

This villa is described in this extract from John Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica ;

According to John Aubrey's very colourful Brief Life, he could " neither read nor write " but " had a stamp for his name.

* Formula of Reunion: In Brief ( A summation of the reunion between Cyril and John of Antioch )

The well-connected antiquary John Aubrey noted in his Brief Lives concerning Bacon, " He was a Pederast.

* Fiensy, David A., " Population, Architecture, and Economy in Lower Galilean Villages and Towns in the First Century AD: A Brief Survey ," in John D. Wineland, Mark Ziese, James Riley Estep Jr. ( eds ), My Father's World: Celebrating the Life of Reuben G. Bullard ( Eugene ( OR ), Wipf & Stock, 2011 ), 101-119.

* Frontline — From Daniel M ' Naughten to John Hinckley: A Brief History of the Insanity Defense

* John Witte, Jr: A Brief Biography of Dooyeweerd, based on Hendrik van Eikema Hommes, Inleiding tot de Wijsbegeerte van Herman Dooyeweerd ( The Hague, 1982 ; pp 1 – 4, 132 ).

* A Brief Life and History of St. Cuthbert by John Butcher, Melrose Historical Society

A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.

A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.

* John Aubrey, Brief Lives.

In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered a two act opera Brief Encounter based on the story, with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird.

Brief Lives is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey in the last decades of the seventeenth century.

The Brief Lives includes biographies of such figures as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, John Dee, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, and William Shakespeare.

The sophistication of the gatehouse prompted John Champness, who wrote Lancaster Castle: A Brief History, to remark " it is perhaps the finest of its date and type in England ".

* John Grisham-The Pelican Brief

John Bowyer Nichols continued his father's various undertakings, and wrote, with other works, A Brief Account of the Guildhall of the City of London ( 1819 ).

Brief text ; content is mostly illustrations by John Albert Seaford Online page images and PDF at Google Books

* John Saffin, merchant and author ( A Brief and Candid Answer to Samuel Sewall's The Selling of Joseph, 1700 ); lived in Bristol

Crowley published the Golden Dawn Enochian material as " A Brief Abstract of the Symbolic Representation of the Universe Derived by Doctor John Dee Through the Skrying of Sir Edward Kelly.

* Black Hands of Beijing: Lives of Defiance in China's Democracy Movement, by George Black and Robin Munro, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993.

In 15 – 16th-century French and English depictions of relationships between women ( Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L ' Espion Anglais by various authors in 1778 ), writers ' attitudes spanned from amused tolerance to arousal, whereupon a male character would participate to complete the act.

Actors appearing in the film included Saturday Night Lives John Belushi, Bill Murray and Gilda Radner, as well as George Harrison and Mick Jagger.

John C. Calhoun: Great Lives Observed.

* John Mitchel Noted Irish Lives, Louis J. Walsh, The Talbot Press Ltd 1934.

Similarly, John Campbell in his Lives of the Chief Justices of England, wrote that Hale was " one of the most pure, the most pious, the most independent, and the most learned " of judges.

John Campbell, in his The Lives of the Chief Justices of England, said that " His reasoning ... is narrow minded ; had utter contempt for method and style in his compositions ", and says that Coke's Reports were " tinctured with quaintness and pedantry ".

Two Canterbury Saints ' Lives by John of Salisbury, Ronald E. Pepin ( transl.

The strike is narrated by John Romer in Ancient Lives: The story of the Pharaohs ' Tombmakers The strike so terrified the Egyptian authorities, as such rebellion was virtually unheard of, that they gave in and raised their wages.

John Curtin: Taking his Childhood Seriously, Australian Political Lives: Chronicling political careers and administrative histories

In a chapter of his book, Eccentric Lives & Peculiar Notions, John Michell cites Huges as pioneering the idea of trepanation in his 1962 monograph, Homo Sapiens Correctus, which is most often cited by advocates of self-trepanation.

The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, & C. His leisurely labours as a biographer seem to have grown out of his devotion to angling.

* John Mitchel Noted Irish Lives, Louis J. Walsh, The Talbot Press Ltd 1934

* John Mitchel Noted Irish Lives, Louis J. Walsh, The Talbot Press Ltd 1934.