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Feb 05, 2018 Book of the Week — Mercury: or the Secret and Svvift Messenger

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“There is no safety but by flight.” Mercury: or the secret and svvift messenger… John Wilkins (1614-1672) London: Printed by I. Norton, for Iohn Maynard, and Timothy Wilkins, and are to be sold at the George in Fleetstreet, neere Saint Dunstans Church, 1641 First edition Z103 W68 1641 This codebook has...

Apr 18, 2017 Book of the Week — An Essay Towards a Real Character…

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“…Letters, the Invention of which was a thing of so great Art and exquisiteness, that…doth from hence inferr the divinity and spirituality of the humane soul, and that it must needs be of a farr more excellent and abstracted Essence that mere Matter or Body…”...