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Friar Bacon 9 $ Brazen Head . £ 06
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the carriage with the children . This is much better than gtting to Van Diemen ' s Land . I w ^ is therefore obliged to keep i * i 4 bright eye" upon our stupid Susan , for she could speak Ettg ^ lishy though it was not often to the purpose , yet , if we had lost her , it would have caused us much additional trouble . The Court , with nearly all tlie nobility , reside in the country during the summer , so that Petersburg is at that period half deserted . I looked forward to the commencement of winter with
much pleasure , for during the summer the place was almost agfcat as Calcutta . I could not sit in doors with my coat ou . The houses here have double windows and huge stoves , which * with suitable clothing , renders the anticipation of the cold no sort of terror to the mind ; indeed every one looks forward to the winter with delight , as being the gayest season , feasting , dancing , drawing in sledges , &c . My wife declares that she trill
never enter a sledge , and I shall take no pains to persuade her to forego the resolution , as I suppose the expense will be nearly tantamount to that of hiring a carriage to drive about the city * an amusement in which she has indulged to no trifling extent , I even dreaded being called upon to purchase something of the
kindthe ride did the child so much good ! One of my chief causes of delight in the anticipation of winter is the expectation of being in a great measure freed from the objectionable society of tfie fleas , bugs , cockroaches , and black-beetles , wretches who have no sense of decorum in their visitation . Z . A ,
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FRIAK BACON'S BRAZEN HEAD .
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( From an unpublished N ' oveLJ ' At the time I was in England , a person named Alexander Bacon , a very learned man in the occult sciences , with \ vhbm I had some intimacy , brought mo , one day , a valuable old book , oh ' Theurgy ; ' whereupon we fell into conversation concerning magic , and to my infinite surprise I discovered that he was an
absolute convert to the belief of its entire practicability . He acknowledged himself a zealous reader of all the most noted works on that subject , even to the Occult Secrets of Corntetttis Agrippa , a most extravagant book , intangible to argument frtflii its extreme absurdity . Finding me treat Agrippa ' s Cird £ , dtkd all its paraphernalia of hours , angels , places of the sun and rnWfrtt , ominous names , and pentagonal figures , with complete ritfffetm , as also his Planetary Squares , Exorcisms , Prayers , DivinitttWm , Charms , and methods of obtaining a familiar Spirit , he recVuestfcd I would peruse some manuscripts which he had carefufty prt-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 505, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/45/
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