Literary and General Lectures and Essays eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 326 pages of information about Literary and General Lectures and Essays.

Literary and General Lectures and Essays eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 326 pages of information about Literary and General Lectures and Essays.

{269} This Lecture was given at Chester in 1871.

{278} An arcade in the King’s School, Chester.

{299} Fraser’s Magazine, September, 1856.—­“Hours with the Mystics.”  By Robert Alfred Vaughan, B.A.  Two Volumes.  London:  John W. Parker and Son. 1856.

{309} Why has Mr. Vaughan omitted to give us a few racy lines on Sir Matthew Hale’s “Divine Contemplations of the Magnet,” Sir Kenelm Digby’s “Weapon-Salve,” and Valentine Greatrake’s “Magnetic Cures”?  He should have told the world a little, too, about the strange phenomenon of the Jesuit Kircher, in whom Popery attempted to recover the very ground which Behmen and the Protestant Nature-mystics were conquering from them.

{337} Macmillan’s Magazine, May 1872.

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