The star, a complete system of the theoretical and practical astrology, by Ebn Shemaya1839 |
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... death of Sisera , it is certain , occurred nearly 1300 years before Christ , so that the sacred language of Deborah proves the science of the stars to have been understood among the Jews even at that remote period , affording an ...
... death of Sisera , it is certain , occurred nearly 1300 years before Christ , so that the sacred language of Deborah proves the science of the stars to have been understood among the Jews even at that remote period , affording an ...
Page 7
... death of man , the master - piece of the creation , knowing them to be mere inanimate bodies , acting only as receptacles of secondary influence , and fail to observe the almighty hand of the Supreme Author of nature guiding the whole ...
... death of man , the master - piece of the creation , knowing them to be mere inanimate bodies , acting only as receptacles of secondary influence , and fail to observe the almighty hand of the Supreme Author of nature guiding the whole ...
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... death on his very birth - day , but if he should escape , as I see but small hopes , he will in the 23rd year be under the very same evil direction : and if he should escape that also , the 33rd or 34th year is , I fear- Here he was ...
... death on his very birth - day , but if he should escape , as I see but small hopes , he will in the 23rd year be under the very same evil direction : and if he should escape that also , the 33rd or 34th year is , I fear- Here he was ...
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... death are concerned . " N.B. Parallels , both zodiacal and mundane , are ( like the conjunction ) good or evil , according as the promittor is a benevolent or malign star . Problem to Calculate Rapt Parallels . Rapt Parallels are the ...
... death are concerned . " N.B. Parallels , both zodiacal and mundane , are ( like the conjunction ) good or evil , according as the promittor is a benevolent or malign star . Problem to Calculate Rapt Parallels . Rapt Parallels are the ...
Page 167
... death if the nativity be strong ; but death may ensue when the hyleg is afflicted by one or two directions only , if the other aphetical points be vitiated at the same time ; never- theless reason and experience will be the best guides ...
... death if the nativity be strong ; but death may ensue when the hyleg is afflicted by one or two directions only , if the other aphetical points be vitiated at the same time ; never- theless reason and experience will be the best guides ...
Common terms and phrases
11th house 1st angle 2d angle 8th house Arc of direction Ascensional difference Astrology biquintile calculated celestial conjunction conv converse motion cosine of 1st cosine of 23 cotangent cusp denotes diff direct motion direction 14 dist distance Secondary distance ditto diurnal horary earth ecliptic formed fourth house heaven Herschell horoscope hyleg Imum cœli Jupiter in mundo Jupiter's latitude longitude medium cœli Mercury in mundo Mercury's mid-heaven Moon's pole moves conversely mundane aspects mundane parallel native O's declination O's pole O's semi-diurnal arc Oblique descension opposition parallel of Mercury Parallel of Venus planet Primary distance Primary distance Secondary promittor quartile quartile of Saturn quintile quintile of Venus radius Rapt Parallels Right ascension rules Saturn in mundo secondary distance semi-arc semi-nocturnal arc semi-sextile semiquartile sesquiquadrate Sextile of Jupiter sextile of Venus significator sine star subtract sun's declination tang trine Venus in mundo zodiac Moon zodiacal parallel
Popular passages
Page 4 - And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water...
Page 2 - twere not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever. Who can satiate sight In such a scene? in such an ocean wide Of deep astonishment? where depth, height, breadth, Are lost in their extremes ; and where to count The thick-sown glories in this field of fire, Perhaps a seraph's computation fails.
Page 13 - Dryden by the hand, and led him out to see it also ; when, just as they came to the gate, the stag being at bay with the dogs. made a bold push, and leaped over the court wall, which...
Page 6 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 193 - The trees shed their blossoms over our young heads ; the flowers on the brink seem to offer themselves to our young hands ; we are happy in hope, and we grasp eagerly at the beauties around us; but the stream hurries us on, and still our hands are empty.
Page 12 - Berkshire, his brother-in-law, to keep the long vacation with him at Charlton in Wilts : his lady was invited to her uncle Mordaunt's, to pass the remainder of the summer. When they came to divide the children, lady Elizabeth would have him take John, and suffer her to take Charles; but Mr. Dryden was too absolute, and they parted in anger : he took Charles with him, and she was obliged to be content with John. When the fatal day came, the anxiety of the lady's spirits...
Page 3 - The illimitable void ! thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling race of men, And all their labour'd monuments away, Firm, unremitting, matchless, in their course ; To the kind-temper'd change of night and day, And of the Seasons ever stealing round, Minutely faithful : such the All-perfect Hand That poised, impels, and rules the steady whole.
Page 194 - ... amid objects more striking and magnificent. We are animated by the moving picture of enjoyment and industry which passes before us ; we are excited by some short-lived success, or depressed and rendered miserable by some equally short-lived disappointment.
Page 194 - From the inoffensive stream, unmindful now Of all the flowers that paint the further bank, And smiled so sweet of late. Thrice welcome Death ! That after many a painful bleeding step, Conducts us to our home, and lands us safe On the long wish'd-for shore.
Page 13 - Rome, occasioned by a swimming in his head, with which he was seized, the heat of the day being excessive. He again recovered, but was ever after in a languishing, sickly state. In the 33rd year of his age, being returned to England, he was unhappily drowned at Windsor.