BRIDEWELL ACT

... pretending to be gypsies, I cr wandering in the habit or ozrm of Egypians-, or pie- :. tending to ha ve ;kill in physiognomy, palmistry. or ?? crafty BciCex, or pretendingg to fell fortunes, or using any 7 subtle craft to deceive and impose on any of his Majestys ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1809
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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The WONDERFUL WHEEL

... and Contingencies. Containing the Art of Divination by the Sciences of Astrology, Physiognomy, Geomancy, Chiromancy, or Palmistry ; Birds, Beasts, Numbers, A.C. ; the Signification of Moles, and the Method of receiving Oracles by Dreams ; the Art ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1811
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 20247 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Miscellaneous Extracts

... it now feuille volante, retaining one part of the compound. Palm is the old French word for the hand, from which we have Palmistry, &c.-(ilaenymeiano.) PARLIAMENTARY REFORM Not a newe-famsgled notionm. ii A stranger to the history.of these countries mightfrom ...

Published: Friday 19 June 1812
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
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MEMOIR OF THE BARON PERGAMI

... the occasion of her daughier e's diirriage. The pessalent tepic of conversatiots was a gypsey sktiiled in tilr scietrce of palmistry, and whose predicoisns sechesd Io be so se vy emanauions fronm Haeven. 'The irrnltetrce of hier incan- tadtion, bad become ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1820
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: News | Words: 3367 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

... Crown should 'have the~power of banishing Egyptians, or outlandish people, who lied made theniselves obnoxious, as well by. palmistry and prediction,, as by thu6 colrn- miasmao of the most flagrant depredations upon thle inhabitants' of the country. ' ,So ...

Published: Tuesday 13 April 1824
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: News | Words: 15046 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MASQUERADE AT THE ARGYLL ROOMS

... Witches for the use they made ttur (r' ked stics; (Clons for the srguletei s of their folly, fir their total ignorance of palmistry. With the ii ,f the R alkiig geitlemen and ladies, who playid up o p e of tbeir beiit the only goodt group in the room wtis ...

Published: Thursday 10 April 1828
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: News | Words: 496 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Varieties

... money then d understanding, and are as easily duped as those untlsjnls ai ing ruatics to whomn the itinerant professors of Palmistry e promise all sorts of good fortune while they pick their d pockets. The Corurier says, 1 To judge from the adver- a tisements ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1833
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
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Local Intelligence

... helter mode of ascoituainillu utoiltre oc- Y ciurrences thiati trucing thie litms ot the hall(i , accordilt( to the rules mf' palmistry, or eve of analycziig the uhregs of a tea or coi' te Cuti. WVheut tile girl tiUtlLcrasto(I that .o this i.mmtoitmrtil process ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1835
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 18244 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

RETURN OF JUSTICE RENT

... telling fortunes by casting nat.. vities, Cupid's nosegays, dumb cakes, love's cordial, nine keys, physiognomy, cards, dice, palmistry, ring and olive branches, watches, chains, &c., together with full directions for choosing a husband, making the dumb speak ...

Published: Thursday 18 May 1837
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1802 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LEWES ELECTION

... he says the lees because he thinks the more. The vriest Btick would hve done just aswell fbr a caedidate, if the same palmistry had becen practised. The Tories are adepts in all kinds of most honourable, we dare soy, and to corrupt electors most convincing ...

Published: Monday 09 March 1840
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1595 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

The Companion

... arrived in the c time of Henry VIII., they inet the taste of tire vulgar _ by pretended skill in astrology and the art of palmistry, bringing with them their native tricks of juggling. That the Gipsies are of the race mentioned can scarcely be doubted, ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1841
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5396 | Page: 4 | Tags: News