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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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ry fast,blossom most beautifully, hut will not bear fruit. The second willblossom and bear very little. The third parcel will not only blossombeautifully, but will bear fruit in abundance, and the fourth and lastparcel will scarcely rise from the ground ! Likewise all fruit trees setat the new moon blossom, but never bear fruit; while all others setthree days before the full bear abundantly. And in pruning treesthe same effect takes place, for a tree pruned at the new moon willshoot forth branches, but unbearable, and if pruned at the full, theywill be prolific. This curious experiment has been tried by the Mcrcurii and se-veral other philosophers ; it at once decides the moon to possess themost powerful influence over sublunary affairs, and whether relativeto the animal or vegetable creation, or to the world at large, still isthis influence perceptible to every searcher after Natures secrets, andthe discoveiy thereof will repay the curious inquirer, r>ic ILLUSTRATION, No. LXXXlll.
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CIRCLE THE NINTH. Anecdotes of the Dead and Terrific Legends, CONTAINING AUTHENTICATED NARRATIVES OF VISIONS, Spectres, Ghosts, Ominous Warnings, and Supernatural Occurrences; selectedfrom the Records of the Curious in all rfges. Though my minds not Hoodwinkd with rustic marvels, I do thinkThere are more things in the grove, the air, the Hood,Yea, and the charneUd earth, than what wise man*Who walks so proud as if his form aloneFillM the wide temple of the universe, ANECDOTES OF THE DEAD, k, 517 Will let a frail one say Id write i the CreedO, thesagest head alive, that fearful forms,Holy or reprobate, do page mens heels ;That shapes, too horrid for our gaze, stand oerTha murderers dust, and for revenge glare up,Even till the stars weep fire for very pity. Millions of spiritual creatures walk (he earthUnseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. So great is the dominion of modern scepticism, that the existenceof spirits, and their occasional appearance, is now generally doubtedby thos

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