Lives of the Necromancers: Or, An Account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages who Have Claimed for Themselves, Or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical PowerChatto and Windus, 1876 - 282 páginas |
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... human mind . Such an exhibition can- not fail to be productive of the most salutary lessons . One view of the subject will teach us a useful pride in the abundance of our faculties . Without pride man is in reality of little value . It ...
... human mind . Such an exhibition can- not fail to be productive of the most salutary lessons . One view of the subject will teach us a useful pride in the abundance of our faculties . Without pride man is in reality of little value . It ...
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... human events , is perhaps the smallest part of human history . If we would know man in all his subtleties , we must deviate into the world of miracles and sorcery . To know the things that are not , and cannot be , but have been ...
... human events , is perhaps the smallest part of human history . If we would know man in all his subtleties , we must deviate into the world of miracles and sorcery . To know the things that are not , and cannot be , but have been ...
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... in the instances which have occurred only a few centuries back , the most common idea has been of a com- pact entered into by an unprincipled and impious human being with the sworn enemy of God and man , in PREFACE . vii.
... in the instances which have occurred only a few centuries back , the most common idea has been of a com- pact entered into by an unprincipled and impious human being with the sworn enemy of God and man , in PREFACE . vii.
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... human sagacity can anticipate and provide against . But , what is still more extraordinary , the human creatures that pretend to these powers have often been found as completely the dupes of this supernatural machinery , as the most ...
... human sagacity can anticipate and provide against . But , what is still more extraordinary , the human creatures that pretend to these powers have often been found as completely the dupes of this supernatural machinery , as the most ...
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... Human life is a drama of that sort , that , while we act our part , and endeavour to do justice to the sentiments which are put down for us , we begin to ... human fancy , the most deplorable perversion of human faculties , PREFACE . ix.
... Human life is a drama of that sort , that , while we act our part , and endeavour to do justice to the sentiments which are put down for us , we begin to ... human fancy , the most deplorable perversion of human faculties , PREFACE . ix.
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