Hermippus redivivus: or, The sage's triumph over old age and the grave ... |
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Page 85 - Gualdi, gravely, to know all things that are possible ; but there is certainly no crime in my being like a picture drawn by Titian. The Venetian easily perceived by his manner of speaking, that he had given the stranger offence, and therefore took his leave. He could not forbear speaking of this in the evening to some of his friends, who resolved to satisfy themselves by looking upon the picture the next day.
Page 2 - Rome in the last century, seems to allude to this subject : — .^Esculapio et Sanitati. L. Clodius Hermippus, Qui vixit annos cxv. dies v. Puellarum anhelitu. Quod etiam post mortem ejus Non parum mirantur physici, Jam poster!, sic vitam ducite.
Page 85 - You look, continued the Venetian, like a Man of Fifty, and yet I know this Picture to be of the Hand of Titian, •who has been dead one hundred and thirty Years, how is this...
Page 103 - Jew merchant intrusted him with all his books and papers, among which were those of the Jew which had been burnt, and the book that our brother had left with him. The merchant, taken up no doubt with his own affairs, and with the care of his trade, had never considered this valuable piece with any attention; but Flamel, whose curiosity led him to examine it more closely, perceiving several pictures of furnaces and alembics, and other vessels, he began immediately to apprehend that in this book was...
Page 80 - Saturn, the Enemy of Nature, is in his Dignities, which makes him less malevolent ; the Moon is in conjunction with Venus and Mercury, in his little...
Page 85 - ... spoke on every subject with such readiness and sagacity, as astonished all who heard him ; and it was in the third place observed, that he never wrote or received any letter ; never desired any credit, or made use of bills of exchange, but paid for every thing in ready money, and lived decently, though not in splendor.
Page 101 - A little before the time of Flamel, there was a Jew of our fraternity ; but as through his whole life he had a most ardent affection for his family, he could not help desiring to see them after he once came to the knowledge of their being settled in France.
Page 103 - ... avoid all discovery, the following steps. He went into Spain, and as Jews were every where settled throughout that country, in every place that he came to, he applied himself to the most learned, engaging each of them to translate a page of his book ; having thus obtained an entire version, he set out again for Paris. He brought back with him a faithful friend of his, to labour with him in the work, and with whom he intended to share the secret ; but a raging fever carried him off, and deprived...
Page 52 - ... as derive to us here the influence of the Stars. " The first Experiment I made was looking on the Person from whom I receiv'd it, at the Distance of four or five Paces, which gave me an Opportunity of discerning an infinite Number of little Worms, that were feeding most voraciously upon his Cloaths, by which I perceived that contrary to the common Opinion, it is not we who wear out our Cloaths, but they are fairly eaten off our Backs, by these invisible Insects...