Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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Bickers and Son, 1878 - Art, Medieval - 552 pages
 

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Page 223 - is the only base upon which all operations of magic stand, so that whenever the magician wishes to do something appertaining to his art, he is expressly, or at all events impliFig. 164. — The Devil, attempting to seize a Magician who had formed a pact with him, is prevented by a Lay Brother. — Fac-simile of a Miniature in the "Chroniques de Saint-Denis.
Page 159 - ... and Holland. * * * Public sanitary measures do not date, however, from this period of general calamity, but from a somewhat later epoch, when the outbreak of various local epidemics caused great apprehension as to the return of the black plague. The closing of houses, streets, and even quarters where the disease had raged, the drawing of a sanitary cordon round the places infected, and, what was still more important, the scientific investigation of the causes of the disease, the cleansing of...

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