Luke xxii. 31.
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2 Cor. xi. 7.
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1 Tim. i. 2.
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1 Cor. xi. 30.
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2 Cor. ii. 11, and xi. 14.
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2 Thess. ii.
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1 Pet. v. 8.
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Ephes. vi. 12.
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They are cited in the letter of the Marquis Maffei.
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The author, as we may see, is not a Cartesian, since he assigns reflection even to animals. But if they reflect, they choose; whence it consequently follows that they are free.
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Luke xiii. 14.
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St. Ambrose, Com. on St. Luke, i. c. 1.
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Martha Brossier, daughter of a weaver at Romorantin, was shown as a demoniac, in 1578. See De Thou on this subject, book cxxiii. and tom. v. of the Journal of Henry III., edition of 1744, p. 206, &c. The affair of Loudun took place in the reign of Louis XIII.; and Cardinal Richelieu is accused of having caused this tragedy to be enacted, in order to ruin Urban Grandier, the curé of Loudun, for having written a cutting satire against him.
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M. de Lannoy has made a particular dissertation De Causà Secessionis S. Brunonis: he solidly refutes this fable. Nevertheless, this event is to be found painted in the fine pictures of the little monastery of the Chartreux at Paris.
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Eliberitan Council, an. 305 or 313, in the kingdom of Grenada. Others have thought, but mistakenly, that it was Collioure in Roussillon.
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Jesus, the son of Sirach, author of Ecclesiasticus, believes this apparition to be true. Ecclus. xlvi. 23.
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This story has been related in the former part of the work, but more succinctly.
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Arist. Treatise on Dreams and Vigils.
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The Abbé de Vallemont, in his work on the Singularities of Vegetation. Paris, 1 vol. 12mo.
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This was a century and a half ago; but the Philosophical Transactions record no account of any successful result to such experiments.
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Madame the Duchess-mother, daughter of the late king, Louis XIV., and mother of the duke lately dead, of M. the Count de Charolois, and of M. the Count de Clermont.
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The author here alludes to the hypogryphe, a winged horse, invented by Ariosto, that carried the Paladins through the air.
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Magicus Vanitates.
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Plin. lib. xxx. c. 1.
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"Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas,
Nocturnos lemures, portentaque Thessala rides?"
Horat. lib. ii. Ep. 2.