... queftion, he did not choofe to take | *»y part in uttpniuClirje labour, which offered bo excrclfe of his talents the art of Palmistry! The females of Bumiah are moll diftinguifhed for beauty, when poiTciTed very long ears. For this purpofe, it is common, ...

... contingencies; containing el e Art of Divination by the Sciences of Astro! .gy, Phi ologromy,, Geomancy and Chimmancy nr Palmistry; the signibc-- tion of moles, and the method of receiving oracles by dream-. also mathematical niagi; to which is added the ...

... eligit nd Contingencies; containing tke Gloucester and Bristol, ences of Astrology, Physiognomy, and 23 fromthe latter,an or Palmistry ; the Siynification of Further Particulars receiving Oracles by Dreams; also ich is added, the Use, Virtue, and zard, Solicitor ...

... they arrived in the time of Henry VHlth. they met (he taste of the vulgar, pretended skill in astrology, and the art of palmistry with their native tricks of juggling. A singular case of sudden obliteration of the deepest impressions occurred Oxford, ...

... prisoners, of holding the band, conceived the Judge to be a fortune-teller, and to inteud a decision' of his case by the rules palmistry. v Anecdote of the EmperourConstnntine. —Asa part of information, derived from resjicctable authority, we are inclined to ...

... stick proper dimensions, and there, enclosed between the fagot-pilc ami the coal-shed, stood the gipsy, in the very act of palmistry, conning the lines of fate in Harriet’s hand. Never was a stronger contrast than that between the old withered sibyl, dark ...

... ie provisions of the Vagrant Act. The charge against bet was that of pretending and professing to tall fortunes, and, by palmistry and other aub'le devices, imposing and deceiving his Majesty’s subjects.—Klizabeth Cottercll proved, that about a month ago ...

... ignorauce by Government, that the most ingenuous and we'l informed might as well pretend to calculate the chances of war by palmistry or the dice, by considering any thing that is allowed to traospiie. However, the weather must now ad%t of the advance of ...

... not the more, nor guarded the less. Come alone in thy gentleness, And spread thy little white hand to me— Thou be taught palmistry. Tliere a line upon thine hand — Deeply, deeply that line is traced Ne'er hath the eye of futurity scanned. Ne'er haili the ...

... 1206—Cobbett, SO Majority fee Ellice. SOS ITINIPANT Ti Kr. Sava Papitt, is defame of the vitiated taste for motion melodrama and palmistry, is about to rotors to the system adopted by the asmiests. vibes Remiss was an actor et Roma, sad to build, spew • spisadid ...

... Science, indeed ! We expect next to hear of the science of animal-magnetism—the science of judicial astrology—the science of palmistry—the science of juggling! member of the Institution, who had, the 7th. opprised phrenology, and who then expected to have ...

... feelings, and affecting indifference, inquired if the stranger could sing. V k ut can tell fortunes he hath great skill in palmistry; he said, 44 I wonder what he could read in hand. 11l warrant me, he can't see red cap there with all his cunning, and yet ...