Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the MarvellousE. Churton, 1835 - 362 sidor |
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... practice of Obeah , or negro witchcraft - charms- their knowledge of vegetable poison - secret poison- ing . 2 CHAPTER XIX . On the origin and superstitious influence of rings . . 300 CHAPTER XX .. Celestial influences - omens ...
... practice of Obeah , or negro witchcraft - charms- their knowledge of vegetable poison - secret poison- ing . 2 CHAPTER XIX . On the origin and superstitious influence of rings . . 300 CHAPTER XX .. Celestial influences - omens ...
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... practices observed by their fathers ; and hence they might conceive the notion , that a conjunction of plants , even without being made use of as a remedy , might be of efficacy to preserve or procure health . Of these , " adds the Abbé ...
... practices observed by their fathers ; and hence they might conceive the notion , that a conjunction of plants , even without being made use of as a remedy , might be of efficacy to preserve or procure health . Of these , " adds the Abbé ...
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... practices , which never appeared , his friends said to him that his fortune was now fulfilled , the Hanover House was the white horse whereof he was admonished to beware . But some time after this , he had a fall from a white horse ...
... practices , which never appeared , his friends said to him that his fortune was now fulfilled , the Hanover House was the white horse whereof he was admonished to beware . But some time after this , he had a fall from a white horse ...
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... practices ; it enervated the courage of the brave by apprehen- sions grounded on puns , and encouraged the wicked , by making them lay to the charge of a planet those evils which only proceeded from their own depravity . ELUCIDATIONS OF ...
... practices ; it enervated the courage of the brave by apprehen- sions grounded on puns , and encouraged the wicked , by making them lay to the charge of a planet those evils which only proceeded from their own depravity . ELUCIDATIONS OF ...
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... practice , and when he charges the astrologers by merely aiming to gain a few beggarly pence , Sir Christopher catches fire , and shews by his quotations , that if we are to despise an art by its professors attempting to subsist , or ...
... practice , and when he charges the astrologers by merely aiming to gain a few beggarly pence , Sir Christopher catches fire , and shews by his quotations , that if we are to despise an art by its professors attempting to subsist , or ...
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Sida 107 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Sida 159 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight: O'er lawyers' fingers , who straight dream on fees : O'er ladies...
Sida 107 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars...
Sida 162 - Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell. When nature rests Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Sida 160 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep: Then dreams he of another benefice! Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Sida 170 - Or, one dream pass'd, we slide into a new ; So close they follow, such wild order keep, We think ourselves awake, and are asleep ; So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
Sida 161 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Sida 145 - But with more lucky hit than those That use to make the stars depose, Like Knights o
Sida 307 - Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years...
Sida 159 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...