Word: agrippa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...encyclopedias of Vincent de Beauvais, of Bartholomaeus de Granville, of Jacobus Magnus, of Mathias Farinator, the speculations of Pierre d'-Ailly, Nicholas of Cusa and John Pico of Mirandola. This field of thought is still more richly represented among the books of the fifteenth century by the work of Agrippa and Paracelsus and their extravagant compeers. Whatever pertains to the superstition of science seems to have had for Mr. White an especial interest...
...trees with piles of fruit, the outspread shade, and water outpoured" could not comfort him in his really very natural shyness. A happy thought occurred to me. In early and credulous youth I had studied the works of Cornelous youth I had studied the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Petrus de Abano. Their lessons, which had not hitherto been of much practical service, recurred to my mind. Stooping down I drew a circle round myself and my old friend in the fragrant white blossoms which were strewn so thick that they quite hid the grass. This circle I fortified...