Demonologia; or, Natural knowledge revealed, by J.S.F.John Bumpus, 1827 - 438 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... various , e . g . holding in the hand a red hot bar ; plunging the arm into boiling water ; walking blindfold amidst burning plough- shares ; passing through fires ; challenging the accuser to single combat , when frequently the ablest ...
... various , e . g . holding in the hand a red hot bar ; plunging the arm into boiling water ; walking blindfold amidst burning plough- shares ; passing through fires ; challenging the accuser to single combat , when frequently the ablest ...
Pàgina 13
... various parts of the body . By the side of the bier , if the smallest change was perceptible in the eyes , month , feet or hands of the corpse , the murderer was con- jectured to be present , and many innocent persons doubtless must ...
... various parts of the body . By the side of the bier , if the smallest change was perceptible in the eyes , month , feet or hands of the corpse , the murderer was con- jectured to be present , and many innocent persons doubtless must ...
Pàgina 19
... various juggling tricks and deceptions , affect- ed an obscure jargon of language , and insinuated itself into every thing in which the hopes and fears of mankind were concerned . The professors of this pretended science were at first ...
... various juggling tricks and deceptions , affect- ed an obscure jargon of language , and insinuated itself into every thing in which the hopes and fears of mankind were concerned . The professors of this pretended science were at first ...
Pàgina 21
... various illustrious persons and of families . One is very striking : Thursday was the unlucky day of our Henry VIII . He , his son Edward VI . Queen Mary , and Queen Elizabeth , all died on a Thursday ! This fact had , no doubt , great ...
... various illustrious persons and of families . One is very striking : Thursday was the unlucky day of our Henry VIII . He , his son Edward VI . Queen Mary , and Queen Elizabeth , all died on a Thursday ! This fact had , no doubt , great ...
Pàgina 22
... various conferences with angels , their voice resem- bled that of the Irish ! The work is certainly curious for the anecdotes of the times it contains . The amours of Lilly with his mistress are charac- teristic . By his own accounts ...
... various conferences with angels , their voice resem- bled that of the Irish ! The work is certainly curious for the anecdotes of the times it contains . The amours of Lilly with his mistress are charac- teristic . By his own accounts ...
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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.