 | 1851 - 520 pages
...aspirations, in the place of eternal truth. But these objects were sufficiently important to produce in the search a " zeal allied to madness," and facts became...numerous collateral results, having a direct material bene&t. "The philosopher's stone," says Liebig, " for which the ancients sought with a dim and ill-defined... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1851 - 576 pages
...clergy," said the king, " should engage in the search for the philosopher's stone ; for, since they could change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ,...succeed in transmuting the baser metals into gold." What success attended these decrees may be gathered from the fact, that the Scottish parliament subsequently... | |
 | Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) - 1852 - 164 pages
...from its course, and be conducted tranquilly to places where its fury is dissipated without injury to man. Even in its fiery flashings in the wide expanse...the mere sake of abstract truth, then she deigned to re ward man for his unselfishness by numerous collateral results having a direct material benefit.... | |
 | 1857 - 592 pages
...of the Kingdom might be liquidated. "The clergy, " says one of these decrees, " should engage in the search for the Philosopher's stone, for since they...bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, they musà also succeed in transmuting the baser metals into gold. " I think myself that the reasoning of... | |
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...declared ' that the clergy should engage in the search for the philosopher's stone, for since they could change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ,...succeed in transmuting the baser metals into gold.'' 427. But the doctrine was carried much farther. If the metals might be thus transformed, what should... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1866 - 480 pages
...declared ' that the clergy should engage in the search for the philosopher's stone, for since they could change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ,...succeed in transmuting the baser metals into gold.' 427. But the doctrine was carried much farther. If the metals might be thus transformed, what should... | |
 | Joel Moody - 1871 - 358 pages
...declared athat the clergy should engage in the search for the philosopher's stone, for since they could change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ,...succeed in transmuting the baser metals into gold." From the god- thought we have Astrology and Magic, which gave birth to Alchemy; and in the wild rambles... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 718 pages
...to devote themselves to the study of the transmutation of metals, viz.: 'that as they were able to change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, they would easily convert the baser metals into gold.' Jo. Peltus, an Englishman, mentions these edicts... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 716 pages
...to devote themselves to the study of the transmutation of metals, viz.: 'that as they were able to change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, they would easily convert the baser metals into gold.' Jo. Peltus, an Englishman, mentions these edicts... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1874 - 498 pages
...declared ' that the clergy should engage in the search for the philosopher's stone, for since they could change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ,...succeed in transmuting the baser metals into gold.' 427. But the doctrine was carried much farther. If the metals might be thus transformed, what should... | |
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IV., a royal edict recommended that "the clergy should search for the philosopher's stone, for since they can change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, they must also, by the help of God, succeed in transmuting the baser metals into gold. 
