 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 946 pages
...Fleetstreet, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true' matter...philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy." By this we learn that a miserable wretch knew the art of making gold, yet always lived a beggar ; and... | |
 | Robert Freke Gould - 1884 - 296 pages
...Street, over against St Dunstan's Church ; and not knowing whether he should live or die, about one of the clock, told me, in syllables, the true matter...Philosopher's Stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy." s The nature of this kind of philosophic adoption is very copiously explained by Ashmole himself, in... | |
 | 1885 - 480 pages
...Street, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether lie should live or die, about eleven of the clock told me, in syllables, the true matter...Philosopher's Stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.' It is almost superfluous to add that no hint is given as to the nature of this ! wonderful secret.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 490 pages
...Street, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock told me, in syllables, the true matter of the Philosopher's Stone, which lie bequeathed to me as a legacy.' It is almost superfluous to add that no hint is given as to the... | |
 | 1890 - 620 pages
...Fleet-street, over against St. Dunstan's Church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true matter...philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy." "Rare Ben Jonson " has immortalised the most notorious of the alchemists, Dr. Dee, who was consulted... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 pages
...Street, over against St. Dunstan's Church, and not knowing whether he would live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables, the true matter...philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy. — Elias Ashmole's Diary. We walked in the evening in Greenwich Park. He asked me, I suppose by way... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 646 pages
...Street, over against St. Dunstan's Church, and not knowing whether he would live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables, the true matter...philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.—Elias Ashmole's Diary. We walked in the evening in Greenwich Park. He asked me, I suppose... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1900 - 390 pages
...Fleetstreet, over against St. Dunstan's Church ; and not knowing whether he should live or dye, about Eleven of the Clock, told me in Syllables, the True Matter of the Philosophers Stone, which he bequeathed to me as a Legacy. 1662, May 30. — My Father Backhouse dyed... | |
 | Lady Constance Charlotte Elisa Lennox Russell, Lady Russell - 1901 - 544 pages
...St., over against St. Dunstan's Church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true matter...from this illness, and lived for nine years after. Aubrey, in his ' Miscellanies,' says : ' William Backhouse had an ugly scab that grew on the middle... | |
 | Frederick Leigh Gardner - 1903 - 112 pages
...Swallowfield, Berks., as in his diary he says : May 131h, 1653: "My father Backhouse being ill unto death told me in syllables the true matter of the Philosopher's Stone which he bequeathed to me as a legacy." 46 Ashmole (Elias) The Way to Bliss, in three Books, made public by EA, qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus.... | |
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Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleetstreet, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the... 
