Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and ScotlandChatto & Windus, 1889 - Počet stran: 428 |
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... spirits of wine , so free from water as to be wholly combustible , and so volatile that a drop of it , if let fall , will evaporate before it reaches the ground . This constitutes the first menstruum . 2. Take pure mercury , revived in ...
... spirits of wine , so free from water as to be wholly combustible , and so volatile that a drop of it , if let fall , will evaporate before it reaches the ground . This constitutes the first menstruum . 2. Take pure mercury , revived in ...
Strana 10
... spirit of wine will pass over , together with spirit of mercury . Keep this liquid in a well - stoppered bottle , lest it should evaporate . More spirit of wine is to be poured upon the residual salt , and after digestion must be ...
... spirit of wine will pass over , together with spirit of mercury . Keep this liquid in a well - stoppered bottle , lest it should evaporate . More spirit of wine is to be poured upon the residual salt , and after digestion must be ...
Strana 11
... spirit by a very gentle heat , and in the bottom of the retort will remain the quintessence or soul of mercury . This is to be sublimed by applying a stronger heat to the retort that it may become volatile , as all the philosophers ...
... spirit by a very gentle heat , and in the bottom of the retort will remain the quintessence or soul of mercury . This is to be sublimed by applying a stronger heat to the retort that it may become volatile , as all the philosophers ...
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... spirit of philosophical inquiry and research which had characterized their predecessors , resorted to various ingenious devices in order to maintain their hold upon their victims . Sometimes they made use of crucibles with false bottoms ...
... spirit of philosophical inquiry and research which had characterized their predecessors , resorted to various ingenious devices in order to maintain their hold upon their victims . Sometimes they made use of crucibles with false bottoms ...
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... spirits ; and , on their obeying his call , had shut them up in seven crystal vases , where he detained them until ... spirit . The story seems to be a fanciful allusion to the various acquirements of Pietro d'Apono ; but if in- tended ...
... spirits ; and , on their obeying his call , had shut them up in seven crystal vases , where he detained them until ... spirit . The story seems to be a fanciful allusion to the various acquirements of Pietro d'Apono ; but if in- tended ...
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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.