Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed by Them, as it was Generally Held During the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works |
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... stories , not very creditable to the priesthood , that had too inconvenient a basis of evidence to be dismissed as ... story about Bishop Sylvanus . - Lecky , Rationalism in Europe , i . 79 . DEVILS ' ANTICS AS MEN . 47 honest lay ...
... stories , not very creditable to the priesthood , that had too inconvenient a basis of evidence to be dismissed as ... story about Bishop Sylvanus . - Lecky , Rationalism in Europe , i . 79 . DEVILS ' ANTICS AS MEN . 47 honest lay ...
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... story , he seems to incline to the belief that it must be the work of some diabolic agency : " If it assume my noble father's person , I'll speak to it , though hell itself should gape , And bid me hold my peace ; " 1 although ...
... story , he seems to incline to the belief that it must be the work of some diabolic agency : " If it assume my noble father's person , I'll speak to it , though hell itself should gape , And bid me hold my peace ; " 1 although ...
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... stories which Harsnet so triumphantly brings forward to convict him of intentional deceit ; and his features , if the portrait in Father Morris's book is an accurate repre- sentation of him , convey an impression of feeble , unpractical ...
... stories which Harsnet so triumphantly brings forward to convict him of intentional deceit ; and his features , if the portrait in Father Morris's book is an accurate repre- sentation of him , convey an impression of feeble , unpractical ...
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... story of Macbeth as it is narrated by Holinshed , from which Shakspere derived his material . In that account we read that " It fortuned as Makbeth and Banquho journied toward Fores , where the king then laie , they went sporting by the ...
... story of Macbeth as it is narrated by Holinshed , from which Shakspere derived his material . In that account we read that " It fortuned as Makbeth and Banquho journied toward Fores , where the king then laie , they went sporting by the ...
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... story - books is still represented as riding on a broomstick - a relic of the enchanted rod with which the devil used to provide his worshippers , upon which to come to his sabbaths.1 One of the charges in the indictment against the ...
... story - books is still represented as riding on a broomstick - a relic of the enchanted rod with which the devil used to provide his worshippers , upon which to come to his sabbaths.1 One of the charges in the indictment against the ...
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