Demonologia; or, Natural knowledge revealed, by J.S.F.John Bumpus, 1827 - 438 pàgines |
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... Greeks , who probably derived it from the Chaldeans ; but the progress of the art is as absurd as the origin of it is obscure . The only wonder is , that it had so much influence upon a people , in the whole of whose history we find so ...
... Greeks , who probably derived it from the Chaldeans ; but the progress of the art is as absurd as the origin of it is obscure . The only wonder is , that it had so much influence upon a people , in the whole of whose history we find so ...
Pàgina 5
... Greeks and Romans with wonder and some degree of contempt , we cannot acquit ourselves of having yet retained a very considerable portion of the same superstitious spirit . We are even indebted to them for almost all our popular whims ...
... Greeks and Romans with wonder and some degree of contempt , we cannot acquit ourselves of having yet retained a very considerable portion of the same superstitious spirit . We are even indebted to them for almost all our popular whims ...
Pàgina 15
... Greeks also had ordeals , for we read in the Antigonus of Sophocles , that the soldiers offer to prove their innocence by hand- ling red hot iron , and walking between fires . One cannot but smile at the whimsical ordeals of the Siamese ...
... Greeks also had ordeals , for we read in the Antigonus of Sophocles , that the soldiers offer to prove their innocence by hand- ling red hot iron , and walking between fires . One cannot but smile at the whimsical ordeals of the Siamese ...
Pàgina 25
... Greek aστηp , a star , and λoyos , a discourse , ) is meant the art of prognosticating or foretelling events * by the ASPECTS , POSITIONS , and INFLUENCE of the HEAVENLY BODIES . By ASPECT is to be understood an angle formed by the rays ...
... Greek aστηp , a star , and λoyos , a discourse , ) is meant the art of prognosticating or foretelling events * by the ASPECTS , POSITIONS , and INFLUENCE of the HEAVENLY BODIES . By ASPECT is to be understood an angle formed by the rays ...
Pàgina 28
... Greeks and Romans , furnish us with innumerable instances of the extent to which Astrology was carried for in- terested purposes . Brahmins in India , who take upon themselves to be the arbiters of good and evil hours , and who set an ...
... Greeks and Romans , furnish us with innumerable instances of the extent to which Astrology was carried for in- terested purposes . Brahmins in India , who take upon themselves to be the arbiters of good and evil hours , and who set an ...
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Demonologia: Or, Natural Knowledge Revealed, by J.S.F J S Forsyth Previsualització no disponible - 2015 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 276 - And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. 27 And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought : and he went and beheaded him in the prison, 28 And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel ; and the damsel gave it to her mother.
Pàgina 179 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
Pàgina 223 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Pàgina 16 - 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...
Pàgina 202 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't ? Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Pàgina 16 - ... 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 lay his goatish disposition...
Pàgina 76 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleetstreet, over against St Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true matter of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.
Pàgina 246 - And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle.
Pàgina 251 - I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
Pàgina 223 - And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnorn: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.