The Astrologer and Oracle of Destiny, a Repository of the Wonderful in Nature and the Curious in Art1845 |
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... body ; and then these also partake of a universal motion around a centre , which is the more immediate dwelling place of the Divinity . ' ' Does the Moon move round the Earth ? No , it does not ; for it moves along with the Earth around ...
... body ; and then these also partake of a universal motion around a centre , which is the more immediate dwelling place of the Divinity . ' ' Does the Moon move round the Earth ? No , it does not ; for it moves along with the Earth around ...
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... body was removed and enshrined with great pomp . Henry VII . of England was wont to declare that Saturday was to him a lucky day . Upon a Saturday he triumphed over Richard III . on Bosworth field ; and upon a Saturday he entered the ...
... body was removed and enshrined with great pomp . Henry VII . of England was wont to declare that Saturday was to him a lucky day . Upon a Saturday he triumphed over Richard III . on Bosworth field ; and upon a Saturday he entered the ...
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... bodies with the operations of which we are familiar . But the more particular or occult sympathies are those not ... body , why should We must now proceed to give some idea of the principles on not the affections and dispositions of ...
... bodies with the operations of which we are familiar . But the more particular or occult sympathies are those not ... body , why should We must now proceed to give some idea of the principles on not the affections and dispositions of ...
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... body as is most suitable to the design of nature ; having first made a proper alteration in the face by means of its nerves . " The face then is to be regarded as a kind of dial - plate , and the wheels and springs inside the machine ...
... body as is most suitable to the design of nature ; having first made a proper alteration in the face by means of its nerves . " The face then is to be regarded as a kind of dial - plate , and the wheels and springs inside the machine ...
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... body , and are frequently adopted by persons of excellent understanding . Lord Bacon , whom no one can accuse of being ignorant , says , that if a man wear a bone ring or a planet seal , strongly believing that by that means he might ...
... body , and are frequently adopted by persons of excellent understanding . Lord Bacon , whom no one can accuse of being ignorant , says , that if a man wear a bone ring or a planet seal , strongly believing that by that means he might ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted Alcahest amongst ancient animal answer appear aspect ASTROLOGER ASTROLOGER'S astronomers beautiful birth body calculated called cations cause Chaldeans circumstances clouds comet correspondent dark death degree distance divine dream earth endeavour evil existence eyes favour feel figure fire fortune future given gold hand happy heart heavens honour horary astrology horary questions hour human imagination Inauspicious Days judicial astrology Jupiter kind knowledge letters light living look Lubeck magic marriage matter Mercury Mervyn Mesmerism mind moon mysterious nativity nature never night observed occult ORACLE OF DESTINY Paracelsus passed period persons philosophers phrenology physiognomy planets possessed predictions present querists received replied ROMANCES POETRY Rosicrucian Saturn seemed Sir Grey sleep soul spirit spirit of wine stars strange things thou thought Tibertus tion truth week to week Wellington-street North Zadkiel
Pasajes populares
Página 91 - WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name.
Página 58 - Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms. And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead; All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink. Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.
Página 58 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Página 102 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.
Página 170 - Tlie intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Página 207 - The whole train of animated beings, from the simplest and oldest up to the highest and most recent, are, then, to be regarded as a series of advances of the principle of development, which have depended upon external physical circumstances, to which the resulting animals are appropriate.
Página 82 - For Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but, in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their aery purposes, 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Página 226 - A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gem.
Página 91 - That from the farthest north Some nation may Yet undiscovered issue forth, And o'er his new got conquest sway. Some nation yet shut in With hills of ice, May be let out to scourge his sin, Till they shall equal him in vice. And then they likewise shall Their ruin have ; For as yourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.
Página 150 - Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.