Demonologia; or, Natural knowledge revealed, by J.S.F.John Bumpus, 1827 - 438 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... Roman augurs took their presages concerning futurity from birds , beasts , and the appear- ances of the heavens , & c . * See AUGURS . tween them ; and that , although the people looked MODERN SUPERSTITIONS , & c . 3.
... Roman augurs took their presages concerning futurity from birds , beasts , and the appear- ances of the heavens , & c . * See AUGURS . tween them ; and that , although the people looked MODERN SUPERSTITIONS , & c . 3.
Pàgina 14
... Roman calendar . These fabulous miracles had been declared authen- tic by the bulls of the Popes , and the decrees of Councils - they were greedily swallowed by the populace ; and whoever believed that the Supreme Being had interposed ...
... Roman calendar . These fabulous miracles had been declared authen- tic by the bulls of the Popes , and the decrees of Councils - they were greedily swallowed by the populace ; and whoever believed that the Supreme Being had interposed ...
Pàgina 39
... tracted out of several ancient Roman catholic prayer books , written on vellum , before printing was invented , in which were inserted the unfortu- nate days of each month , as in the following ASTROLOGY . 89 Lucky and Unlucky Days.
... tracted out of several ancient Roman catholic prayer books , written on vellum , before printing was invented , in which were inserted the unfortu- nate days of each month , as in the following ASTROLOGY . 89 Lucky and Unlucky Days.
Pàgina 40
... Roman history , where it is mentioned that that very day four years , the civil wars were begun by Pompey the father ; Cæsar made an end of them with his son , Cneius Pompeius being then slain ; and that the Romans accounted the 13th of ...
... Roman history , where it is mentioned that that very day four years , the civil wars were begun by Pompey the father ; Cæsar made an end of them with his son , Cneius Pompeius being then slain ; and that the Romans accounted the 13th of ...
Pàgina 54
... Roman army . Nor were such means confined to dark and barbarous ages ; Theophrastus pronounced Pericles to be insane , because he discovered that he wore an amulet about his neck ; and in the declining era of the Roman empire , we find ...
... Roman army . Nor were such means confined to dark and barbarous ages ; Theophrastus pronounced Pericles to be insane , because he discovered that he wore an amulet about his neck ; and in the declining era of the Roman empire , we find ...
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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.