An Introduction to Astrology

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H.G. Bohn, 1852 - 548 pagina's
 

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Pagina 8 - Sir Robert Brooke spoke to this purpose : "Mr. Lilly, This Committee thought fit to summon you to appear before them this day, to know, if you can say anything as to the cause of the late fire, or whether there might be any design therein. You are called the rather hither, because in a book of yours, long since printed, you hinted some such thing by one of your hieroglyphics.
Pagina 8 - May it please your Honours, ' After the beheading of the late King, considering that in the three subsequent years the Parliament acted nothing which concerned the settlement of the nation in peace ; and seeing the generality of...
Pagina 182 - ... produces pain or ulcers in the hips and thighs by humours settled in those parts, and an extreme heat in the mouth and throat.
Pagina 461 - Sidereal Time at Mean Noon is the angular distance of the First point of Aries, or the true Vernal Equinox, from the meridian, at the instant of Mean Noon : it is therefore the Right Ascension of the Mean Sun, or the time which ought to be shown by a Sidereal Clock at Greenwich, when the Mean Time. Clock indicates Oh Om 0'.
Pagina v - If a proposition of any nature be made to any individual, about the result of which he is anxious, and therefore uncertain whether to accede to it or not, let him but note the hour and minute when it was first made, and erect a figure of the heavens, as herein taught, and his doubts will be instantly resolved.
Pagina 8 - God had given me, to make enquiry by the art I studied, what might from that time happen unto the Parliament and nation in general. At last, having satisfied myself as well as I could, and perfected my judgment therein, I thought it most convenient to signify my intentions and conceptions thereof, in Forms, Shapes, Types, Hieroglyphicks, &c.
Pagina 8 - Having found, Sir, that the city of London should be sadly afflicted with a great plague, and not long after with an exorbitant fire, I framed these two hieroglyphics as represented in the book, which in effect have proved very true.' ' Did you foresee the year ?' said one. ' I did not,' said I, ' or was desirous: of that I made no scrutiny.
Pagina 395 - THE disposition of the luminaries and the respective familiarities, exercised by the stars attending them, are to be considered as indicative of the degree of rank or...
Pagina 27 - House, and its Signification.^ The first house contains all that part of heaven from the line where the figure 1 stands unto the figure 2, where the second house begins : it is one-third of the distance between the horizon and meridian below the earth. It has signification of the life of man, of the stature, colour, complexion, form, and shape of him that propounds the question, or is born ; in eclipses and great conjunctions, and upon the Sun his annual ingress into T ; it signifies the common people,...
Pagina 7 - ... which made her come unto me for a final resolution. At last my enemy began her before-made speech, and, without the least stumbling, pronounced it before the court ; which ended, she had some queries put unto her, and then I spoke for myself, and produced my own Introduction into court, saying, that I had some years before emitted that book for the benefit of this and other nations ; that it was allowed by authority, and had found good acceptance in both universities ; that the study of astrology...

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