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共 66 段- Hardly was that monarch laid in his grave ere the popular ha
- The honest old soldier, Marshal Villars, was so vexed to see
- It was remarked at this time that Paris had never before bee
- Among the caricatures that were abundantly published, and th
- It was while Law's plan was at its greatest height of popula
- 51. For importing beaver fur. Capital, two millions.
- This was the almost unanimous feeling of the country. The tw
- This verdict caused the greatest joy. Though it was delivere
- At last, however, the more prudent began to see that this fo
- The first of these philosophers was born in the year 1193, o
- Most writers who believed in the secrets of alchymy, and who
- Among the works written by Nicholas Flamel on the subject of
- He also maintained a whole troop of players, including ten d
- The following is a catalogue of the chief authors upon alchy
- If this strange charlatan found hundreds of admirers during
- [41] The "crystal" alluded to appears to have been a black s
- Thrown thus unexpectedly upon his own resources, Dee began i
- Though the existence of such a society as that of the Rose-c
- Just at the time that Michael Mayer was making known to the
- The disinterestedness of these would-be philosophers looked,
- This pretender to the philosopher's stone was the son, by a
- His real name was Joseph Balsamo. He was born at Palermo, ab
- He had not been long at Paris before he became involved in t
- Other prophecies were current, which were asserted to have b
- This is not unlike the subterfuge of Peter of Pontefract, wh
- In Lilly's _Memoirs of his Life and Times_, there are many n
- _Daffodils_. Any maiden who dreams of daffodils is warned by
- As this new doctrine of magnetism spread, it was found that
- Maxwell, the other enthusiast, was an admiring disciple of P
- "Nothing is more astonishing than the spectacle of these con
- Thus was magnetism laughed out of England for a time. In Fra
- In France also the beard fell into disrepute after the death
- Before entering into any further details of the marvellous r
- The encampments of these heterogeneous multitudes offered a
- Godfrey of Bouillon traversed Hungary in the most quiet and
- Every thing favoured the treacherous project of the Armenian
- The chiefs, though they had determined to stay at Antioch fo
- The command of the army was offered to St. Bernard; but he w
- Henry II. of England and Philip Augustus of France, at the h
- The fifth was more important, and had a result which its pro
- The army of Frederic encamped at Brundusium; but a pestilent
- In spite of the remonstrances of the few clear-headed states
- It was thought that the earth swarmed with millions of demon
- But at this early period of the epidemic the persecutions we
- Throgmorton, the father, was so pestered by these idle fanci
- These trials had the most pernicious consequences all over S
- [32] This illustration, representing Matthew Hopkins examini
- In Scotland, the delusion also assumed the same phases, and
- In 1627, a ballad entitled the _Druten Zeitung_, or the _Wit
- "From these considerations, sire, and in the execution of so
- A number of young women in a convent at Würzburg fancied the
- In the mean time the insidious Rochester wrote the most frie
- The liquor thus obtained was subjected to an analysis, and f
- It was now that the mania for poisoning began to take hold o
- They first of all tried the efficacy of prayers to drive awa
- There was now a considerable pause, and one of the clergymen
- The next phrase was a most preposterous one. Who invented it
- [46] The Abbé, in the second volume, in the letter No. 79,
- With the mere reader the case is widely different; and most
- When the lists were prepared, the countess duly acknowledged
- But so strong a hold had the education and prejudice of his
- The worthless Duke of Buckingham, having debauched the Count
- A dispute arose in a coffee-house between him and a young ma
- When the maniac, Thom, or Courtenay, was shot, in the spring
- Dupotet, M., his account of Mesmer's experiments, i. 279, 28
- Overbury, Sir Thomas, _portrait_ of, ii. 195;