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Title: The astrologer of the nineteenth century
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Raphael, pseud., 1795-1832 Anglicus, Merlinus, junior, Gent
Subjects: Astrology Occultism
Publisher: London : Knight & Lacey
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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dreamed that she saw her husbands eyeput out. There were jousts and tournaments at that time, into whichthe queen besought her husband not to enter, because of her dream,but he was resolved, and there did things worthy of himself. Whenalmost all was now done, he would needs run the tilt with a knightwho refused him ; his name was Montgomery; the king was bentupon it; they shivered their lances in the course, and a splinter ofone of them took the king so full in the eye, that he thereby re-ceived his death wound.—Ibid. p. 475. WARNING OF DEATH TO THE THEBAN TYRANT. Acebias, the Theban tyrant, being at a feast, where were presentall kinds of merriment and mirth, there was brought to him a letter,wherein he was certified of a plot that was upon his life: he neverread it, but gave orders, that as a thing serious it should be deferredto the morrow, but neglecting that warning, he did not live to readit, for he was slain that night.—Zuin. Theat. vol. 3. p. 698. 406ILLUSTRATION, No. LV,
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CIRCLE VI. AN ORIGINAL SELECTION OF THE MOST Illustrious, <£mmntt, aitH Rrmarftafrie jlatibittr*, BOTH OF THE PAST AND PRESENT TIME; Including those of his Majesty and the Royal Family of England, the Heir tothe Throne of France, Lord Byron, Graham the Aeronaut, George Bidder theCalculating Youth, the notorious Harriet Wilson, and othe7*s no less worthy ofNotice by the curious or scientific Reader; with a variety of Predictions relativeto the future Fate of these extraordinary Individuals, demonstrating the actualPossibility of reading every remarkable Event relative to our Destiny in theStars of Heaven, B^ RAPHAEL, THE METROPOLITAN ASTROLOGER. * For centuries after centuries all branches oflearaing were either made subser-vient to astrology, or carried on in close alliance with it: in the east, wheic it first REMARKABLE NATIVITIES. 407 arose, at a period of very remote antiquity, it still even now holds sway. InEurope, and in every part of the world where learning had impressed t

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