Poetical Works, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1861 |
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... carried the case before the president of Poitiers , and was finally acquitted . Not long after , some Ursuline nuns of Loudun were reported to be possessed of devils , and Grandier's enemies accused him of being the author of the ...
... carried the case before the president of Poitiers , and was finally acquitted . Not long after , some Ursuline nuns of Loudun were reported to be possessed of devils , and Grandier's enemies accused him of being the author of the ...
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... carried off in a remarkable manner through a pane of glass . The enumeration which follows of the astrological services rendered to the parliament by Lilly is borne out by the account he gives of him- self in his autobiography . When ...
... carried off in a remarkable manner through a pane of glass . The enumeration which follows of the astrological services rendered to the parliament by Lilly is borne out by the account he gives of him- self in his autobiography . When ...
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... carried on for two years , when a Polish prince , Albert Laski , Palatine of Siradia , arrived in England , and , being a student in this kind of lore , prevailed upon Dee and Kelly to accompany him back to Poland . Laski soon , however ...
... carried on for two years , when a Polish prince , Albert Laski , Palatine of Siradia , arrived in England , and , being a student in this kind of lore , prevailed upon Dee and Kelly to accompany him back to Poland . Laski soon , however ...
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... carried on by medicines , or by sympathetic influences , was entertained by many writers ; nor is it yet wholly relinquished in France , where treatises on the subject are still in circulation . The application of scientific principles ...
... carried on by medicines , or by sympathetic influences , was entertained by many writers ; nor is it yet wholly relinquished in France , where treatises on the subject are still in circulation . The application of scientific principles ...
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... carry intelligence Of whom , and what , and where , and whence , And all discoveries disperse Among th ' whole pack of conjurers ; What cut - purses have left with them , For the right owners to redeem , And what they dare not vent ...
... carry intelligence Of whom , and what , and where , and whence , And all discoveries disperse Among th ' whole pack of conjurers ; What cut - purses have left with them , For the right owners to redeem , And what they dare not vent ...
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afterwards Albert Laski Alluding amongst Anaxagoras ancient appear astrologer barratry battle of Naseby beast betray bones break Butler Caligula called cause cheat church Colonel Pride conjurers conscience constellations covenant Cromwell cross and pile crown death devil doctrine e'er ears Empedocles enemy eyes false fear feats fight force give grace Grey's Hudibras hand hang haste heaven Hence honour king knight ladies learned Lilly lover marriage means moon Napier's bones Nash nature ne'er never o'er oaths Paracelsus parliament pass passage Paul Neal person philosophers play presbyterian pretended prove Quoth Hudibras rabble Ralph resolved Restoration Robert Hooke rump Rump Parliament saints says scorn sense Sidrophel soul spirit squire stars swear tell there's things thou Tis true took trepan tricks turn twas vermin Whachum witches women word worse
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Page 122 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you, seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business ; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 196 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Page 36 - Bumbastus kept a devil's bird Shut in the pummel of his sword, That taught him all the cunning pranks Of past and future mountebanks.
Page 213 - Like Charity ; else right and wrong Could never hold it out so long, And, like blind Fortune, with a sleight, Convey men's interest and right From Stiles's pocket into Nokes's, As easily as Hocus Pocus...
Page 15 - And was old dog at physiology; But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was...
Page 51 - There'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; A crafty lawyer and a pick-pocket, A great philosopher and a blockhead; A formal preacher and a player, A learn'd physician and manslayer.
Page 71 - s done, Or may I never see the sun ; For which I humbly now demand Performance at your gentle hand; 170 And that you'd please to do your part As I have done mine, to my smart.
Page 134 - That us'd to break up ground and dig), The bride to nothing but her will, That nulls the after-marriage still: Some were for th...
Page 212 - Meanwhile they robb'd me and my horse, And stole my saddle," — " Worse and worse !'" " And made me mount upon the bare ridge, T" avoid a wretcheder miscarriage.
Page 225 - Could never equal, nor come nigh. ' For women first were made for men, Not men for them. — It follows, then, That men have right to every one, And they no freedom of their own; And therefore men have power to choose, But they no charter to refuse.