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26340	And you Physicians, Whither is your Opinion flown, to fetch somewhat afar off over the Seas for to cure the_ Dropsie_, and all_ Lunary_ Distempers?
26340	And you conceited Naturalists, where is your Writings and Advice of Reason?
26340	But how comes it to pass, that a thing which hath a sweet Air, is bitter in Taste?
26340	How shall we now do?
26340	I open many Mysteries, which ought not to be; but what should I do?
26340	O thou valid substance of Metals, how great is thy power, how uninventive is thy virtue, how durable is thy constancy?
26340	They say it is a black thing: What think you, is it not black?
26340	They say, it is a dry water, if Gold or_ Luna_ be to be refined upon the test, must it not be done with_ Saturn_?
26340	They say, our Stone is made of a stinking menstruous thing: What think you, is not_ Saturn_ digg''d out of a stinking Earth?
26340	What is the reason of this?
26340	What say you, my Child, is not this the true_ Aurum potabile_, and the true Quintessence, and the thing which we seek?
26340	You will say, that this my speech is too dark for you; is it so?
26340	where is your voice in this case to explain this Mystery?
14641	And are you your self the Possessor of this Science?
14641	But what Man will discover to us this Art in the Metallick Kingdom?
14641	For, what can more confirm, and Patronize Verity, than the true Light of Truth it self?
14641	He having related these things, I ceased not to enquire of him, to what end he had instanced this?
14641	How shall they see the Abyss of the Spagyrick Art?
14641	I also enquired of him, whether he( speaking of the Universal Medicine) were not a Physician?
14641	I pray Sir, tell me the Truth, whether it be really so, or not?
14641	Moreover, when I, affected with admiration said to him; My Master, I pray tell me, where had you this greatest Science of the whole World?
14641	My Friend giving the same to him; demanded, whether he would use that Spirit of Salt, he now had, for Metals, or not?
14641	Now, what shall I do, my Master?
14641	Sir, you say true?
14641	So my Master, Is this Sulphureous, and Yellow Glassy Substance the very Philosophick Matter?
14641	What mean you by this?
14641	What seek you?
14641	What?
14641	Whether the Potion was Philosophick?
1271	( 1)( 1) MICHAEL SENDIVOGIUS(? 1271 But how was this possible if it were not, as I have suggested, the repayment, in a sense, of a sort of philological debt? 1271 Hereat the host began immediately to laugh, inquiring of him,''What made him refuse it now, when he had eaten one at his table about four years ago?'' 1271 How else could he account for its origin, if knowledge must proceed from the known to the unknown? 1271 How far, if at all, was the magician rewarded by the attainment of his desires? 1271 In view of these quotations, the alliance( shall I say?) 1271 In what respects, it may be asked in conclusion, is the philosophy of the Cambridge Platonists open to criticism? 1271 Indeed, as I queried on a former occasion, what other source of explanation was open to him? 1271 Now what did the men of the Middle Ages regard as falling into the category of the known? 1271 Now, what was the reason for the belief in these three colour- stages, and for their occurrence in the above order? 1271 Of what other form of origin was he aware? 1271 One of the most curious of these old medical( or perhaps I should say surgical) superstitions was that relating to the Powder of Sympathy, a remedy(?) 1271 Science does not pretend to reveal the fundamental or underlying cause of phenomena, does not pretend to answer the final Why? 1271 The question naturally arises, What were the results obtained by these magical arts? 1271 Was it because its fundamental theorems were erroneous? 1271 What exactly was the system of beliefs grouped under the termalchemy,"and what was its aim?
1271	What is thy tent?
1271	What then is magic?
1271	What was their precise influence upon human thought and culture?
1271	What wonder that he read mystic meanings into the laws of Arithmetic, and believed Number to be the explanation and origin of all that is?
1271	What wonder then that Pythagoras concluded that the solution of the mighty riddle of the Universe was contained in the mysteries of Geometry?
1271	Where maist thou dwell?
1271	Why did alchemy fail?
1271	Why does force produce or result in motion?
1271	Why should any one over- do in this kind?
1271	Why were the beliefs held?
884	''But, according to her account, you must be more than a hundred years old?'' 884 But what do you see on the card?"
884	Did you foresee the year of the fire?
884	Have you got a light anywhere else?
884	One day,says Madame du Hausset,"Madame said to him, in my presence,''What was the personal appearance of Francis I?
884	Was ever anything so delightful?
884	What is written on it?
884	What means your letter, then?
884	''Was his court very brilliant?''
884	--"Can you see with the inside as well as the out?"
884	--"Is it small or large, this writing?"
884	After a few minutes the physician arose, and asked him if he had not seen how angry the devil looked?
884	After this, what can be said for the judgment or the impartiality of such a committee?
884	And what does the child?
884	But are they testimony in favour of Animal Magnetism?--do they prove the existence of the magnetic fluid?
884	Can this be deception?
884	De Rays owned that he had indeed misgivings, and inquired what was to be done to make the devil speak out, and unfold his secret?
884	Dee, a little startled, inquired whether the spirits might not mean that they were to live in common harmony and good- will?
884	Had he no fancy merely because he was dumb?
884	Had not the astrologer in view Don Miguel and Don Pedro when he penned this stanza, so much less obscure and oracular than the rest?
884	Have I deserved this fate?
884	He had heard Mesmer say that he could magnetise bits of wood-- why should he not be able to magnetise a whole tree?
884	Her eyes having been bandaged, she was asked if she could not see all the persons present?
884	I asked him what he ailed?
884	I once asked a spirit whether children grew after death?
884	Know ye not that she must support her mother by her charms?
884	One of the doctors present inquired whether a man who knew so many sciences was acquainted with music?
884	She was then asked if she could see the watch?
884	The patients of Perkins, of Valentine Greatraks, of Sir Kenelm Digby, of Father Gassner, were all equally positive: but what availed their assertions?
884	Why do n''t you give it to the King?''
884	Will you undertake to make me a gainer of four thousand livres?''
14218	What prerogative have vegetables above metals,exclaims one of them,"that God should give seed to the one and withhold it from the other?
14218	''You do not reside in Messina, signor?''
14218	Are electrons normal constituents of all elementary atoms?
14218	Are elementary atoms collocations of electrons?
14218	Are not metals as much in His sight as trees?"
14218	Are not the choicest fables of the poets, That were the fountains and first springs of wisdom, Wrapp''d in perplexed allegories?
14218	Are the words I have quoted unintelligible, like the parrot''s prating?
14218	But how is such a restoration of phlogiston to be accomplished?
14218	Can the atoms of all the elements be caused to give off electrons?
14218	How, then, was the transmutation to be accomplished?
14218	In his explanation(?)
14218	In_ A Catechism of Alchemy_, Paracelsus asks:"What road should the philosopher follow?"
14218	Is matter fundamentally homogeneous or heterogeneous?
14218	Is this not to perform the miracle of the resurrection?
14218	Plato gives him certain directions, and tells him he must use_ magnasia_; the disciple asks--''What is Magnasia, good sire, I yow preye?''
14218	Radio- active substances, are they elements?
14218	Rogue, where are my sixty ounces of gold?"
14218	Shall reason, founded on false sense, be able to contradict[ the senses], wholly founded as it is on the senses?
14218	Sholde it ellis be?
14218	Speak not the Scriptures oft in parables?
14218	Was not all the knowledge Of the Egyptians writ in mystic symbols?
14218	Was not that want the necessity for the realisation of order in the universe?
14218	What happens when a substance is burnt in the air?
14218	What is the perfection of the common metals?
14218	What more simple than to conclude that the iron has been transformed into copper?
14218	Why did the alchemists so untiringly pursue their quest?
14218	Why does the chemist toil so eagerly?
14218	_ Conclusion_.--The lead has vanished; what more natural than the conclusion that it has been transformed into silver?
14218	_ See p. 91._] What kind of experimental evidence could an alchemist furnish in support of his theory of transmutation?
713	At what time this morning will you take your departure?
713	How long a time first?
713	How long did Carrots live with you?
713	How long was that before your death?
713	How was the poison administered, in beer or in purl?
713	Sie sprach zu ihm behende, Wie lasst du mich so lang In der Obrigkeit Hande? 713 What would you have of me?"
713	''How is it,''said Anselme to him,''that you, whom I saw lying dead on the field of battle, are full of life?''
713	*** Who''s there, i''the devil''s name?
713	***"Be these the fruits of common secrets, common dangers?"
713	--''But whence,''resumed Anselme,''comes that strange brightness that surrounds you?''
713	Afterwards, when the child could speak, this examinant asked her what she saw at the time?
713	And has he not within a year Hang''d threescore of them in one shire?
713	Another time they both cried out upon Amy Duny and Rose Cullender, saying,''Why do n''t you come yourselves?
713	Help me from this anguish, O thou dearest devil( or lover), mine?"]
713	Hilf mir aus ihren Zwang, Wie du mir hast verheissen, Ich bin ja eben dein, Thu mich aus der Angst entreissen O liebster Buhle mein?
713	In such a state of fear and anxiety, how could Alexius comport himself with dignity and like an Emperor?"
713	Is that the city?"
713	Justice:"How now?
713	Many of the latter were asked upon the rack what Satan had said, when he found that the commissioners were proceeding with such severity?
713	Might not the great enemy have put false testimony into the mouths of the witnesses, or might not the witnesses be witches themselves?
713	Now what was the grand result of all these struggles?
713	Nuremberg, Geneva, Paris, Toulouse, Lyons, and other cities, their two hundred?
713	She also asked the ladies, who had been drawn to their windows to witness the procession, what they were looking at?
713	She said to him quickly,"Why hast thou left me so long in the magistrate''s hands?
713	The Judge then asked them whether they found her guilty upon the indictment of conversing with the devil in the shape of a cat?
713	The first question he put to them was, whether they would serve him soul and body?
713	The inquisitors were required to ask the suspected whether they had midnight meetings with the devil?
713	Why do you send your imps to torment us?''"
713	and whether they had sexual intercourse with Satan?
713	dost thou think King Richard is in the bush?"]
713	knock!--Never at quiet?
713	knock****** Who''s there, i''the name o''Beelzebub?
713	neighbour Banks, are you a ringleader in mischief?
713	that Cologne should for many years burn its three hundred witches annually?
713	the district of Barnberg its four hundred?
713	whether they attended the witch''s sabbath on the Brocken?
713	whether they could raise whirlwinds and call down the lightning?
713	whether they had their familiar spirits?
636	And where are your witnesses?
636	Does any man,said he,"feel compunction in following his trade?
636	Does your mother know you''re out?
636	Does your mother know you''re out?
636	Thank you,replied the traveller, taking out his note- book to make a memorandum of the same;"are these admirals common in your country?"
636	True as death? 636 True; but do you suppose that I committed them?
636	What falls?
636	What is the matter?
636	Where''s his master?
636	Who are you?
636	Yes,said La Motte, pushing past him as fast as he was able;"and can that be you?"
636	--"Well, then,"said John,"as we were sailing over the Line, what do you think we saw?"
636	Among the most conspicuous, was one inscribed,"John Bull against John Kemble.--Who''ll win?"
636	And after all, what was the grand result?
636	As old Drayton sings, in his Poly- olbion:--"Of Merlin and his skill what region doth not hear?
636	Broad and smooth was the river on which he embarked; rapid and pleasant was his progress; and who was to stay him in his career?
636	Did you not say that you were ready?"
636	Do you forgive me?"
636	Every new comer into an alehouse tap- room was asked unceremoniously,"Who are you?"
636	He was then asked how many people he had killed with his own hands in the course of his life?
636	Henry, forgetting his assumed character of an antiduellist, carelessly, and as a mere matter of course, inquired whether the man lived?
636	How could we survive things like that?
636	How, after this, could we think to escape?
636	Is any man killed by man''s killing?
636	Is it not the hand of God that kills, and are we not the mere instruments in the hands of God?"
636	One of them was a caricature likeness of Mr. Kemble, asking,"What do you want?"
636	Suddenly the owner pounced upon him, and, with fury in his eyes, asked him if he knew what he had been doing?
636	The officiating Thug, turning to the spectators, and holding the axe uplifted, asks,"Shall I strike?"
636	The performances announced on the bills were the opera of"Love in a Village,"and"Who wins?"
636	The praise of his wit was in every mouth, and"Who are you?"
636	The title was too apt to the occasion to escape notice, and shouts of"Who wins?
636	Then it was of him demanded, whether he should be slaine or be deposed, or should voluntarily give over the crowne?
636	To put the wisdom of the young prophet most effectually to the test, the judge asked him if he knew his own father?
636	Upon this it was resolved, that both were alike agreeable to God, and that they should be used by turns in all the churches of Seville?
636	What traveller is unacquainted with the Santa Scala, or Holy Stairs, at Rome?
636	When this phrase had numbered its appointed days, it died away, like its predecessors, and"Who are you?"
636	Where shall we find such another set of practical philosophers who, to a man, are above the fear of death?
636	Who does not remember the division of England into the two great parties of Roundheads and Cavaliers?
636	Who does not remember the outcry against the science of geology, which has hardly yet subsided?
636	Who is there here that would betray him for his interest?
636	Who is there here that would not die for his friend?
636	and after dinner,"Do you know who fought this morning?"
636	and are not all our trades assigned us by Providence?"
636	and have you not been describing a number of murders in which you were concerned?"
636	and were we not ourselves both seized soon after?
636	of the wealthy of yesterday become the beggars of to- day?
636	replied Campbell,"will you mention before these gentlemen, was not everything fair?
636	said her husband;"is the Virgin unwilling to listen to your prayers?"
636	said his mother,"and what did the captain say?"
636	said the Abbe, smiling,"is that you?"
636	who wins?"