Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
To The Duchesse of Newcastle, On Her New Blazing-World. To all Noble and Worthy Ladies. The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World. The Second Part of the Description of the New Blazing-World. The Epilogue to the Reader.
To The Duchesse of Newcastle, On Her New Blazing-World. To all Noble and Worthy Ladies. The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World. The Second Part of the Descript...
2. Part 2Their Priests and Governors were Princes of the Imperial Blood, and made Eunuches for that purpose; and as for the ordinary sort of men in that part of the World where the Emper...
3. Part 3After this, they took a Charcoal, and viewing it with one of their best Microscopes, discovered in it an infinite multitude of pores, some bigger, some less; so close and thick,...
4. Part 4After this, and several other Conferences, which the Empress held with the Worm-men, she dismissed them; and having taken much satisfaction in several of their Answers, encourag...
5. Part 5The other Chappel, which was lined with the Star- stone, did onely cast a splendorous and comfortable light; both the Chappels stood upon Pillars, just in the middle of a round...
6. Part 6Then she inquired, Whether there was no mystery in Numbers? No other mystery, answered the Spirits, but reckoning or counting; for Numbers are onely marks of remembrance. But wh...
7. Part 7After some time, when the Spirits had refreshed themselves in their own Vehicles, they sent one of their nimblest Spirits, to ask the Empress, Whether she would have a Scribe, o...
8. Part 8The Empress being thus perswaded by the Duchess to make an imaginary World of her own, followed her advice; and after she had quite finished it, and framed all kinds of Creature...
9. Part 9I came not here, said she, to hear Fortune flattered, but to hear the Cause decided between Fortune and the Duke; neither came I hither to speak Rhetorically and Eloquently, but...
10. Part 10Which sight, when her Country-men perceived at a distance, their hearts began to tremble; but coming something nearer, she left her Torches, and appeared onely in her Garments o...
11. Part 11After the view of these Glorious and Magnificent Buildings, which the Duchess's Soul was much delighted withall, she resolved to take her leave; but the Emperor desired her to s...