Witchcraft
N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce, En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse; Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soîns Ne diffèrent entre eux que du plus ou du moins. BOILEAU.
shape of a dark man riding a tall black horse, then as a friar, afterwards as an ass and finally as a coach-wheel. Instances are not rare in which both he and his inferior demon...
2. ill. Nicholas watched by his bedside, and acted the double part of aphysician and nurse to him; but he died after a few days, lamenting with his last breath that he had not lived long enough to see the precious volume. Nicholas rendered the last...
1. VOLUME I.N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce, En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse; Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soîns Ne diffèrent entre eux que...
3. VOLUME II.N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce, En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse; Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soîns Ne diffèrent entre eux que...
6. i. 63, 74, 77;Bohemund, his courage displayed in the Crusades, ii. 21, 28, 30, 31, 35, 38, 39; takes Antioch, by treachery in the garrison, 32; is made Prince of Antioch, 32, 41.
11. i. 275;MISSISSIPPI SCHEME, the, its history, i. 1-44; financial difficulties in France, expedients of the Regent Orleans, i. 6; official peculation and corruption, 7; John Law's propos...
8. i. 47-55, 69;Hair, its length influenced by religious and political prejudices; legislative enactments, i. 296; short hair of the Normans (_engraving_), i. 297, 303; St. Wulstan's antipathy...
14. ii. 200;his origin and rise at court; supposed vicious connexion with James I.; his intrigue and marriage with the Countess of Essex; the murder of Overbury; the earl's trial and senten...
16. i. 85;great demand for plants in Holland and Germany, introduced in England from Vienna, the flower described and eulogised by Beckmann and Cowley, 86; rage for bulbs in Holland and t...
10. i. 105;MAGNETISERS, the, i. 262-295; effect of imagination in the cure of diseases, i. 262, 272. _Mineral Magnetism_: Paracelsus its first professor, 263; diseases transplanted to the...
12. i. 167;Scott, Sir Walter, his anachronisms on the Crusades, ii. 74, 98. "Scratching Fanny," or the Cock Lane Ghost; her remains in the vault of St. John's Church, Clerkenwell, ii. 230.
7. i. 5, 6;the Crusade preached there, ii. 8; the cathedral of Clermont (_engraving_), ii. 9; executions for witchcraft, ii. 119, 122, 174; existing belief in witchcraft there, ii. 189; th...
5. ii. 35-40;15. i. 109;13. ii. 252;9. ii. 171;