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...icacy of the various vegetable medicines used in Astrological Pharmacy. An English Astrologer who published a work on Chiromancy in 1671, insist... ...eventeenth centuries with as much avidity as the philosopher‘s stone, which the alchemists believed would, like the touch of Midas, change all meaner... ...brought into action. A rat will die by being compelled to look at or be near an English ferret. If an ox is killed, and let lie in a tight house wit...

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... THE METAL INDUSTRY OF ANTIQUITY 33 Mercury, Copper, Bronze, Iron and Steel. GEBER (721-815) Arabian Alchemist 38 One of the first scholars and alchemists of the Islamic world. OMAR KHAYYAM (12th Century). Persian Scientist and Astronomer 38 Brilliant astronomer and alchemist of the 12th Century. BERNARDO TREVISAN (1406 -1490) Italian Alchemist 39 One of the mo...

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... these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek into English... ...ral titles of the author’s books are mentioned. Some are already available English, and their titles are only in English. Some are in the process of ... ... Some are in the process of being translated, and their titles are also in English. Some are available as of this time only in Italian: these titles... ...le as of this time only in Italian: these titles have been translated into English and placed in brackets { }. A list of all the authors books with ... ...oks with a specification of which already are or soon will be available in English, is found at the end of the book. 5 To all those ... ... (transforming lead into gold was the goal, described symbolically, of the alchemists) and the impossible opus that it can create, which is secondary... ...onquer evil and who is patient while extracting beauty from ugliness. The alchemists were infinitely patient when working on their opus, their deve... ...er says, or the “coniunctio oppositorum” {conjunction of opposites} as the alchemists say. A star is born because it creates a fusion of equal at...

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...nce. The Universal symbols of Birth and Infinity are semantically correct in English, and in Mathematics, and in Gender. When you use logic organi... ...gration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the exact same hi... ...ved in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… ... ...n Nations he conquered… including all of the civil codes of the revolutionary English Parliamentary system… have since been modified: to bring back a... ...t the property rights and privileges of a small elite class of wealthy, landed English Gentry living in America. The Constitution of the United Stat... ...and to the Greeks, all the way back to Egypt: 7,000 years ago. When Egyptian alchemists tried to invent magic potions and elixirs… to give their rul...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y committed to paper. 7 Hawthorne Beginning with the idea of producing an English romance, fragments of which remain to us in “The Ancestral Footstep... ...ous to his nostrils. But the spicy, homelike scent of his other herbs, the English simples, was grateful to him, and so was the earth- smell, as he tu... ...at would make them imagine I had found that ridiculous talis- man that the alchemists have sought. The old man’s cor- dial,—that is best. And five shi...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...the latent germ in every man’s heart, to which we owe the ex- periments of alchemists, the passion for glory, the discover- ies of astronomy and of ph...

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...ity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...e motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach. The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs... ...phrase more characteris tically, of advancement in his profession. He is an English man, and in the midst of national and professional preju dices,... ...u to perish on the open sea.” On perceiving me, the stranger addressed me in English, although with a foreign accent. “Before I come on board your ves... ...y. I replied carelessly, and partly in contempt, men tioned the names of my alchemists as the principal authors I had studied. The professor stared. ... ...nd exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural phil... ...ceived the congratulatory vis its on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq. Her ugly sister, Manon, married M. Duvil...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... birth, Scotch by extraction; and became, as he himself did, es- sentially English by long residence and habit. Of John him- self Scotland has little ... ... Bristol Channel, and far off, the Hills of Devonshire, for boundary,—the “English Hills,” as the natives call them, visible from every eminence in th... ...y years of fierce closure were suddenly thrown open; and the hearts of all English and European men awoke staggering as if from a nightmare suddenly r... ... the copi- ous prompt habit of employing it in all manner of uncon- scious English prose composition, or even occasionally in verse itself: this, or s... ...tist who could burn you up an old Church, root and branch; and then as the Alchemists professed to do with organic substances in general, distil you a...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...zen. A refined materialism is stamped on all the habits of Flem- ish life. English comfort is harsh in tone and arid in color; whereas the old-fashion... ... raised colored figures, in the manner of Ber- nard Palissy, came from the English manufactory of Wedgwood. The silver-ware was massive, with square s... ...said to his wife in a voice of emotion,— “Let us go upstairs.” Long before English manners and customs had consecrated the wife’s chamber as a sacred ... ...brings us at once close upon the great T ernary of the ancients and of the alchemists of the Middle Ages, whom we do wrong to scorn. Modern chemis- tr... ...bon, the diamond, seemingly the last substance possible to create? The old alchemists, who thought that gold was decomposable and therefore creatable,...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ages Extraordinaires” of M. Jules Verne deserve to be made widely known in English-speaking countries by means of carefully prepared translations. Wit... ... these books will assuredly be read with profit and delight, especially by English youth. Certainly no writer before M. Jules Verne has been so happy ... ...rated alchemist!” I gazed at my uncle with satisfactory admiration. “Those alchemists,” he resumed, “Avicenna, Bacon, Lully, Paracelsus, were the real... ...sense. To be sure the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth letters made the English word ‘ice’; the eighty-third and two following made ‘sir’; and 21 ... ...ilet, dragged me after him. The porter at the hotel could speak German and English; but the Pro- fessor, as a polyglot, questioned him in good Danish,...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... .... I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to be ‘God’s En- glishman’... ...s newspaper. In- stead of a frank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences... ...ngs and living much the same life as they were in Europe in A.D. 1500. The English excavators of the year A.D. 1900 could delve into the remains of Ba... ...a little leisure from war and brutality the seekers appeared. And half the alchemists were of their tribe. When Roger Bacon blew up his first batch of... ...er a long phase of accu- mulating water and eddying inactivity…. The sober Englishman at the close of the nineteenth cen- tury could sit at his breakf...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ... pleasant dream, rather than ever waken again to its harsh realities. We are alchemists who would extract the essence of perpetual youth from dust and... ...t time; and how it would gladden me to know that they recognised some hearty English work in Master Humphrey’s clock! THE CLOCK CASE IT IS MY INTEN... ...d been a profitable one in the time of King Henry the Eighth, who encouraged English archery to the utmost, and he had been prudent and discreet. Thus... ...wun ‘em too,—I should like to know wot he vould say, if he wos alive now, to Englishmen being locked up vith widders, or with anybody again their will... ...ar, and then p’r’aps we may get into what the ‘Merrikins call a fix, and the English a qvestion o’ privileges. ’ Having uttered this friendly caution,...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...hered by the Benedictines. Louis XVI., a just mind, himself translated the English work in which Walpole en- deavored to explain Richard III.,—a work ... ...ore terrible, though less known, of Marie dé Medici. Isabella summoned the English into France against her son, and loved her brother-in-law, the Duc ... ...inently arrested them and marched them before the justice at the Chatelet. Englishwomen, who are so fond of ermine, do not know that in former times n... ... sicians of the house of Valois); also the astronomers, astrolo- gers, and alchemists who surrounded the princes of Christendom and were more especial... ...d died in prison after seven years’ captivity.” “Charles V . conquered the English,” she cried triumphantly . “No, not he, but du Guesclin. He himself... ... seen the sorceresses, too,” she whis- pered in his ear. 259 Balzac V THE ALCHEMISTS AGAIN ABSORBED IN THOUGHT, Charles IX. made her no an- swer; he ... ... “Will he live a happy man?” asked the king, presenting his son to the two alchemists. “That is a question which concerns Cosmo,” replied Lorenzo, sig...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...natural state. Nor had Lambert omitted the yet more recent adventure of an English girl who was passionately attached to a sailor, and set out from Lo... ...verruled his work too long; but was it not in trying to make gold that the alchemists unconsciously cre- ated chemistry? At the same time, Lambert, at... ...reading all the works published within the last sixty years by the patient English, by Germany, and by France, how deeply true were my youthful views ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... .... How? by whom? in what way? where?—Presto! Foro! Magico! As much knew the alchemists at their fur- naces reading Herr T rippa. Only the old woman kne...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... of the resources of his art. He gave a history of the long dynasty of the alchemists, who spent so many ages in quest of the universal solvent by whi... ...cared their native forest with more hideous incantations than any known to English witchcraft. “But where is Faith?” thought Goodman Brown; and, as ho...

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...the Mass, that is strange. What! so many of our brave 15 Sir Walter Scott English hearts are abroad, and you, who seem to be a man of mark, have no f... ...that Grave Maurice thanked him at the head of the army? Men said he was an English cavalier, and of no high extraction.” “It could scarcely be my neph... ...ouble- some thoughts haunt your mind, and will not get them gone for plain English, we will have one of Father Bacon’s pupils from Oxford, to conjure ... ..., content you, sir,” replied Foster, “there is a change since you knew the English world; and there are those who can hold their way through the bolde... ...sitated to place the foot on such exquisite workmanship. The table, of old English oak, stood ready covered with the finest linen; and a large portabl... ...s denied that such a drug ex- isted, excepting in the imagination of crazy alchemists; and most of them attempted to satisfy their customer, by pro- d...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rved it for her. ‘Ask him if he has saved many lives?’ said, in his native English, the young man who had been put out of countenance. The host needed... ...rown off as to be very difficult for one not perfectly acquainted with the English lan- guage to understand, or , even understanding, to take offence ... ...to receive quite a shock from the force of the argu- ment. Monsieur, as an English traveller, surrounded by all means of travelling pleasantly; doubtl... ...e road, from the patched Italian V ettura—like the body of a swing from an English fair put upon a wooden tray on wheels, and having another wooden tr... ... Two caps as high as the Pope’s Mitre, and have performed the mysteries of Alchemists in a copper-saucepaned laboratory below, before he could have go...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... the quotations, which were in a most corrupt state, and of which Cotton’s English versions were singularly loose and inexact, and for the zeal with w... ...t, and for the zeal with which he has co-operated with me in collating the English text, line for line and word for word, with the best French edition... ..., is in the third person, is scarcely worth publication, as a whole, in an English dress. THE AUTHOR OF THE ESSAYS was born, as he informs us him- sel... ...ument was restored in 1803 by a descen- dant. It was seen about 1858 by an English traveller (Mr. St. John).’—[“Montaigne the Essayist,” by Bayle St. ... ...people so confident, as those who enter- tain us with fables, such as your alchemists, judicial astrolo- gers, fortune-tellers, and physicians, ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...m “one of the worst of men.” Literary Paris had combined with Hume and the English Government to sur- round him—as he supposed—with guards and spies; ... ...e was never clear of quacks, contrivers of new manufactures, 191 Rousseau alchemists, projects of all kinds and of all descriptions, whose discourses... ...tterly undo me. I know not by what whimsicallity I resolved to pass for an Englishman; however, in consequence of that determination I gave my- self o... ...o extricate myself from this dilemma, happy in not being questioned on the English language, which I did not know a single word of. The company were a... ...ral of my fellow-boarders were Irish, from whom I endeavored to learn some English words, as a precaution for Saint-Andiol. The time now drew near for...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...American Union. They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and distinct English colonies, along the margin of the shore of the North American Con... ...esistance, like an electric shock, startled and roused the people of all the English colonies on this continent. This was the first signal of the Nort... ...ignal of the North American Union. The struggle was for chartered rights—for English lib Orations of John Quincy Adams 4 erties—for the cause of Alg... ...d John Hampden—for trial by jury—the Habeas Corpus and Magna Charta. But the English lawyers had decided that Parliament was omnipotent—and Parliamen... ...s of theological warfare are antiquated; the field of politics supplies the alchemists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the b...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...cian bowler hats and the neat coats of the boulevardier. Dr Porhoët spoke English fluently, with scarcely a trace of foreign accent, but with an elab... ... lecturing at his hospital, and took pains to read every word, not only in English, but in French and German, which was published concerning his profe... ... our marriage now,’ he said. ‘I’m buying furniture already.’ ‘I think only English people could have behaved so oddly as you, in postponing your marri... ...ce. When I was getting together the material for my little book on the old alchemists I read a great deal at the library of the Arse nal, which, you ... ...tless. He had read his book, recently published, on the more famous of the alchemists; and, though forced to admire the profound knowledge upon which ... ... tables arranged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least... ...sked him to come. Dr Porhoët had lent her his entertaining work on the old alchemists, and this gave her a chance to bring their conversation to matte... ...ned to Dr Porhoët. ‘You are a bold man to assert that now and then the old alchemists actually did make gold,’ she said. ‘I have not gone quite so far...

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...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ing to the honor and con- science of a doctor. Doctors are just like other Englishmen: most of them have no honor and no conscience: what they commonl... ... might pay you four visits for it, seems to have no equivalent nowadays in English society. Better be a railway porter than an ordinary English genera... ...scinates the imagination of the herbalist as mercury used to fascinate the alchemists. On week days he keeps a shop in which he sells packets of penny... ...en no better off than the patient) to assume that the average income of an English family is about 2,000 pounds a year, and that it is quite easy to b... ...d honor now occupied by our military and naval forces. It is silly that an Englishman should be more afraid of a German soldier than of a British dise...

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...OIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn ... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux The tex... ...was carefully reprinted in 1838, only a hundred copies being issued, by an English bibliophile T(heodore) M(artin), whose interesting preface I regret... ...eventeenth century, in 1693, a French refugee, Peter Antony Motteux, whose English verses and whose plays are not without value, pub- lished in a litt... ... goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones. Nor did they omit to visit the alchemists, money-coiners, upholsterers, weavers, velvet- workers, watchmak... ...s T oordicantium. The Periwinkle of Ballad-makers. The Push-forward of the Alchemists. The Niddy-noddy of the Satchel-loaded Seekers, by Friar Bindfas... ...dred turnips, and a little of a calf’s chaldern of the best allay that the alchemists have provided, (and) that they daub and do over with clay, as al... ...vu- let of gold, which is their sole restorative? No greater is the joy of alchemists, when after long travail, toil, and expense they see in their fu...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...aid Mr. Brownlow laughing—having just found her trying to make out the Old English of King Alfred’s 7 Yonge ‘Boethius’—”such as this?” “Just so! They... ... of the verb “to be” in five languages—Greek, Latin, French, Ger- man, and English. “And Allen—reposing on your honours? Eh, my boy?” Allen looked rat... ...p, look- 123 Yonge ing shivery and forlorn, as if they were not suited to English winters, and the huge house looked down on them like a London terra... ...oon was spent in an easy-going, loitering way, more like a foreign than an English Sunday. Miss Ogilvie used to go to the Litany at one of the Churche... ...ich represented to me an arcanum as won- derful as any elixir of life that alchemists dream of, and I was always figuring to myself the honour and glo...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the common experience of an Englishman, without presum- ing to mention the unimportant fact of my havin... ...t or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, d... ...be- 14 Charles Dickens yond all power of written expression, our familiar English ‘I believe you!’ ‘Haha! Y ou are right! A gentleman I am! And a gen... ...try. My fa- ther was Swiss—Canton de V aud. My mother was French by blood, English by birth. I myself was born in Belgium. I am a citizen of the world... ...s the Pope’s Mitre, and have performed the 599 Little Dorrit mysteries of Alchemists in a copper-saucepaned laboratory below, before he could have go...