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... poison - secret poison- ing . CHAPTER XIX . 2 On the origin and superstitious influence of rings . CHAPTER XX . . 300 Celestial influences - omens - climacterics - predomina- nations . - Lucky and unlucky days . - Empirics , etc. 305 ...
... poison - secret poison- ing . CHAPTER XIX . 2 On the origin and superstitious influence of rings . CHAPTER XX . . 300 Celestial influences - omens - climacterics - predomina- nations . - Lucky and unlucky days . - Empirics , etc. 305 ...
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... poison . * From the animal , the Druids passed to the vege- table world ; and these also displayed their powers , whilst by the charms of the misletoe , the selago , and the samopis , they prevented or repelled diseases . From the ...
... poison . * From the animal , the Druids passed to the vege- table world ; and these also displayed their powers , whilst by the charms of the misletoe , the selago , and the samopis , they prevented or repelled diseases . From the ...
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... poisons . Thus do several nations of the world place their religion in the observation of trifles . The Druids were also extremely superstitious in relation to the herb selago , which they reckoned a 88 THAUMATURGIA , OR.
... poisons . Thus do several nations of the world place their religion in the observation of trifles . The Druids were also extremely superstitious in relation to the herb selago , which they reckoned a 88 THAUMATURGIA , OR.
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... poisons , and they preserved their selago against all misfortunes . The Persians had the same confidence in the efficacy of several herbs , and used them in a similar manner . The Druids cut their misletoe with a golden hook , and the ...
... poisons , and they preserved their selago against all misfortunes . The Persians had the same confidence in the efficacy of several herbs , and used them in a similar manner . The Druids cut their misletoe with a golden hook , and the ...
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... poisons . As the virtue of these stones is still much boasted of by the Maltese , and as some , on the contrary , maintain that they are the petrified teeth of a fish called lamia , it will not be irrelevant here to relate some ...
... poisons . As the virtue of these stones is still much boasted of by the Maltese , and as some , on the contrary , maintain that they are the petrified teeth of a fish called lamia , it will not be irrelevant here to relate some ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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: 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: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Página 162 - 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.
Página 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.
Página 162 - But know, that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief ; among these, fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, airy shapes, 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.
Página 145 - But with more lucky hit than those That use to make the stars depose, Like Knights o
Página 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...
Página 166 - Of things impossible ! (Could sleep do more ?) Of joys perpetual in perpetual change ! Of stable pleasures on the tossing wave ! Eternal sunshine in the storms of life...