 | 1828 - 658 páginas
...said, this perhaps will not transmute four grains of lead, whereupon he bid me deliver it him hack, which, in hopes of a greater parcel, I did ; but he,...nail, flung it into the fire, and gave me the rest neatly wrapped up in blue paper ; saying, it is yet sufficient for thee. I answered him indeed with... | |
 | 1828 - 334 páginas
...said, this perhaps will not transmute .four grains of lead, whereupon he hid me deliver it him hack, which, in hopes of a greater parcel, I did ; but he,...nail, flung it into the fire, and gave me the rest neatly wrapped up in blue paper ; saying, it is yet sufficient for thee. I answered him indeed with... | |
 | Lewis Spence - 1920 - 516 páginas
...discoursed of Nature's secrets, but he was very silent on the subject of the great elixir gravely asserted that it was only to magnify the sweet fame and mercy...sufficient for thee." I answered him, indeed with a most Rejected countenance, " Sir, what means this ? The other being too little, you give me now less." He... | |
 | Arthur E. Waite - 2007 - 321 páginas
...; and at last, out of his philosophical commiseration, he gave me as much as a turnip seed in si2e, saying, ' Receive this small parcel of the greatest...answered him, indeed with a most dejected countenance, 4 Sir, what means this ? The other being too little, you give me now less.' He told me to put Into... | |
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this perhaps will not transmute four grains of lead," whereupon he bid me deliver it back to him, which, in hopes of a greater parcel, I did, but he, cutting half off with his nail, flung it into the fire, and gave me the rest wrapped neatly up in blue... 