thinking and refined. There are few who would not join
with Cowley in the extravagant wish introduced in his lines "written while
sitting in a chair made of the remains of the ship in which Sir Francis
Drake sailed round the world:"

And I myself, who now love quiet too,
Almost as much, as any chair can do,
Would yet a journey take
An old wheel of that chariot to see,
Which Phaeton so rashly brake.

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INDEX.

Abraham, Noah, and Moses said to have been alchymists, i. 95, 114.

Acre besieged in the Third Crusade, ii. 69;
its surrender to the Christians, 71.

Addison's account of a Rosicrucian, i. 177;
his opinion on duelling, ii. 281.

Agricola, George, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 145.

Agrippa, Cornelius, memoir, and _portrait_ of, i. 138;
his power of raising the dead and the absent, 142.

Aislabie, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer, his participation in the
South-Sea fraud, i. 73, 78;
rejoicings on his committal to the Tower, 79.

Alain Delisle. (_See_ Delisle.)

Albertus Magnus, his studies in alchymy, i. 99;
_portrait_ of, 100;
his animated brazen statue destroyed by Thomas Aquinas, 100;
his power to change the course of the seasons, 101.

ALCHYMISTS, the, or Searches for the Philosopher's Stone and the Water of
Life, i. 94-220;
natural origin of the study of Alchymy, its connexion with astrology,
&c., i. 94;
alleged antiquity of the study, 95;
its early history, 96;
Memoirs of Geber, 96;
Alfarabi, 97;
Avicenna, 98;
Albertus Magnus, with _portrait_, Thomas Aquinas, 99;
Artephius, 102;
Alain Delisle, 102;
Arnold de Villeneuve, with _portrait_, 103;
receipt for the elixir vitae ascribed to him, 103;
Pietro d'Apone, 104;
Raymond Lulli, with _portrait_, 105;
Roger Bacon, 110;
Pope John XXII., 111;
Jean de Meung, 112;
Nicholas Flamel, 113;
George Ripley, 118;
Basil Valentine, 119;
Bernard of Treves, 119;
Trithemius, 124;
Marechal de Rays, 125;
Jacques Coeur, 132;
inferior adepts of the 14th and 15th centuries, 135;
progress of the infatuation in the 16th and 17th centuries, 137-189;
Augurello, 137;
Cornelius Agrippa, with _portrait_, 138;
Paracelsus, with _portrait_, 142;
George Agricola, 145;
Denis Zachaire, 146;
Dr. Dee, with _portrait_, and Edward