The Cradle of the Twin Giants, Science and History, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1849 - Occultism |
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... facts which it deve- loped and which were already ascertained , presented a basis sufficiently broad for the erection of many fanciful and ingenious theories . The idea was soon caught that Magnetism was a subtle , invisible fluid ...
... facts which it deve- loped and which were already ascertained , presented a basis sufficiently broad for the erection of many fanciful and ingenious theories . The idea was soon caught that Magnetism was a subtle , invisible fluid ...
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... fact , assisted in it , was Anton Mesmer , who had taken his degree of M.D. at the Univer- sity of Vienna at the age of thirty - two , and who had commenced his medical career by writing a trea- tise " On the Influence of the Planets on ...
... fact , assisted in it , was Anton Mesmer , who had taken his degree of M.D. at the Univer- sity of Vienna at the age of thirty - two , and who had commenced his medical career by writing a trea- tise " On the Influence of the Planets on ...
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... fact , one and the same fluid seen under different circumstances.1 But the cha- racter of Mesmer forbids us to suppose that his remark was more than a chance illustration ; the very next words destroy the illusion ; " Steel is not the ...
... fact , one and the same fluid seen under different circumstances.1 But the cha- racter of Mesmer forbids us to suppose that his remark was more than a chance illustration ; the very next words destroy the illusion ; " Steel is not the ...
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... fact , he was on the verge of a discovery perhaps still more important . This is an extract from a letter addressed to a friend at Vienna ( M. Unzer ) , and such were the statements which he made in various communications to the learned ...
... fact , he was on the verge of a discovery perhaps still more important . This is an extract from a letter addressed to a friend at Vienna ( M. Unzer ) , and such were the statements which he made in various communications to the learned ...
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... facts deserving of the most attentive consideration . These facts , too , are supported by an array of names which it would be absurd to count as unimportant , and we shall , therefore , conclude this chapter by the theory of Animal ...
... facts deserving of the most attentive consideration . These facts , too , are supported by an array of names which it would be absurd to count as unimportant , and we shall , therefore , conclude this chapter by the theory of Animal ...
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Page 191 - With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. She was pinched and pulled, she said ; And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set...
Page 195 - 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...
Page 315 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever : Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page 315 - So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Page 192 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 356 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field', and every fowl of the air', and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them ' ; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature', that was the name thereof.
Page 350 - David was old and stricken in years ; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for uay lord the king a young virgin : and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
Page 324 - In the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 195 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 195 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice : Sometime 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.