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Page 65 - They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Page 137 - Lepers were so numerous in the twelfth century, that by a decree of the Lateran Council under pope Alexander III., AD 1179, they were empowered to erect churches for themselves, and to have their own ministers to officiate in them. This shows at once how infectious and offensive their distemper was. And on this account, " In England where a man was a leper, and...
Page 137 - AD 1179, they wore empowered to erect churches for themselves, and to have their own ministers to officiate in them. This shows at once how infectious and offensive their distemper was. And on this account, " In England where a man was a leper, and was dwelling in a town, and would come into the churches, or among his neighbours when they were assembled, to talk to them to their annoyance or disturbance, a writ lay De Leproso amovendo.
Page 26 - ... shoulders with scarf or shawl, and assiduously tender the refreshing lemonade or negus. The only thing in which he contradicts her on these occasions is her taste for ices. Having arrived at that mature age at which a man is said to be either a fool or a physician, he knows the danger of such an indulgence, and positively prohibits it. She pouts, and, in revenge, it is ten to one but she joins in a waltz, which she knows he detests. His head — his poor head ! — grows giddy as he watches her...
Page 137 - What follows is remarkable. The writ is for those lepers " who appear to the sight of all men they are lepers, by their voice and their sores, the putrefaction of their flesh, and by the smell of them.
Page 137 - Edwd. 6, c. 3, in which directions are given for carrying the poor to the places where they were born, etc., we read the following clause : — " Provided always, that all leprous and poor bed-rid creatures may, at their liberty, remain and continue in such houses appointed for lepers, or bed-rid people, as they now be in.
Page 103 - The principle of the commonwealth is the " one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves " and has moved through thousands of years of human ignorance and dynastic ambitions and priestly arrogance.
Page 137 - ... Lincoln, directing the resignation of a clergyman (1310), says that he is besprinkled with the spot of leprosy. The decree of 1346 condemns "all those who are found infected with leprous spots" to be removed. Anthony Fitz-Herbert, writing in 1534, points out that the writ is for those "who appear to the sight of all men that they are lepers," by their voice, disfigurement and noisome condition.
Page 102 - ... I thought the longer the pedigree the better," said Charles Osmond, with laughter in his eyes. " But, seriously, where do you make your spirit-world begin ?" " I think," said Charles Osmond, " there was once a wise man, but who he was I haven't an idea, and this was his wise utterance, 'The spirit sleeps in the stone, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man.
Page 135 - It had been discovered that the vaccine lymph about to be used had come from the most leprous village in Southern India ! The message was delivered just in time — not an instant to spare ; an accident to man or horse, an extra drink of water on the road — the veriest trifle — and some of us would have been surely doomed to the most awful fate on earth.