Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and ScotlandChatto & Windus, 1889 - Počet stran: 428 |
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... accused of heresy , was thrown into prison and died there . His ecclesiastical persecutors , however , burned his bones rather than be entirely disappointed of their auto da fé . Like most of the mediaval physicians , he indulged in ...
... accused of heresy , was thrown into prison and died there . His ecclesiastical persecutors , however , burned his bones rather than be entirely disappointed of their auto da fé . Like most of the mediaval physicians , he indulged in ...
Strana 55
... accused by a certain Debois of possessing the powder of projection . Debois roundly asserted that Norton had made him a thousand pounds of gold ( lucky man ! ) in less than twelve hours . Whereupon Dalton simply said , ' Sir , you are ...
... accused by a certain Debois of possessing the powder of projection . Debois roundly asserted that Norton had made him a thousand pounds of gold ( lucky man ! ) in less than twelve hours . Whereupon Dalton simply said , ' Sir , you are ...
Strana 62
... accused of practising against the Queen's life by divers enchantments . Arrested and imprisoned ( at Hampton Court ) , he was subjected to rigorous examinations , and as no charge of treason could be proved against him , was remitted to ...
... accused of practising against the Queen's life by divers enchantments . Arrested and imprisoned ( at Hampton Court ) , he was subjected to rigorous examinations , and as no charge of treason could be proved against him , was remitted to ...
Strana 94
... accused ; but it is to be hoped that his wish was fulfilled , and that he was acquitted of it before many days had elapsed . I have omitted some items relating to moneys * The Monas Hieroglyphica . ' † The celebrated navigator , whose ...
... accused ; but it is to be hoped that his wish was fulfilled , and that he was acquitted of it before many days had elapsed . I have omitted some items relating to moneys * The Monas Hieroglyphica . ' † The celebrated navigator , whose ...
Strana 113
... accused Lady Somerset of instigating him to administer to Overbury a poison , which would be forwarded to him for that purpose . Then one Rawlins , a servant of the Earl , gave infor- mation that he had been similarly employed . As soon ...
... accused Lady Somerset of instigating him to administer to Overbury a poison , which would be forwarded to him for that purpose . Then one Rawlins , a servant of the Earl , gave infor- mation that he had been similarly employed . As soon ...
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Strana 102 - (quoth she) ' bury you or no?' ' Oh Trunco,' for so he called her, 'thou wilt bury me, but thou wilt much repent it.' 'Yea, but how long first?' 'I shall die,' said he, 'ere Thursday night.
Strana 406 - The displaying of supposed Witchcraft wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of Deceivers and Impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the Devil and the Witch...
Strana 33 - England, bethought himselfe how he might keepe it hereafter from the like conquests, and so make himselfe famous hereafter to all posterities. This (after great study) hee found could be no way so well done as one ; which was to make a head of brasse, and if he could make this head to speake (and heare it when it speakes) then might hee be able to wall all England about with brasse.
Strana 205 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both, of the Old and New Testament...
Strana 172 - s but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war, A thief and justice, fool and knave, A huffing officer and a slave...
Strana 25 - I'll have A whore, shall piss them out next day. Mam. Ha ! why ? Do you think I fable with you ? I assure you, He that has once the flower of the sun, The perfect ruby, which we call elixir, Not only can do that, but, by its virtue, Can confer honour, love, respect, long life ; Give safety, valour, yea, and victory, To whom he will. In eight and twenty days, I'll make an old man of fourscore, a child.
Strana 324 - The fearful abounding at this time in this country of these detestable slaves of the devil, the witches' or enchanters, hath moved me (beloved reader) to dispatch in post, this following treatise of mine...
Strana 165 - Sir Robert Brooke spoke to this purpose : — " ' Mr. Lilly, this Committee thought fit to summon you to appear before them this day, to know, if you can say anything as to the cause of the late fire, or whether there might be any design therein.
Strana 40 - Bacon. Now, masters of our academic state, That rule in Oxford, viceroys in your place, Whose heads contain maps of the liberal arts, Spending your time in depth of learned skill, Why flock you thus to Bacon's secret cell, A friar newly stall'd in Brazen-nose? Say what's your mind, that I may make reply. Burd. Bacon, we hear that...
Strana 400 - A Candle in the Dark, or a Treatise concerning the Nature of Witches and Witchcraft; being Advice to Judges, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and Grand Jurymen, what to do before they passe sentence on such as are arraigned for their lives as Witches.