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The woman who dresses herself as a mermaid and swims in a transparent tank, below water Fin-fin they call her. I suppose you have not been reading the newspapers?" "Not much." "There is a fine collection for you upstairs. And there is an article about you in the Islington Young Men's Improvement Association. It is signed Trismegistus. Oh, it is beautiful, Gerty quite full of poetry!
The importance of working round to this famous nine will be clear when we reflect that, according to the Kabbala and the lost sacred book of Hermes Trismegistus the Pimandra, doubtless, which he is represented, on the floor of Siena Cathedral, as offering to a Jew and a Gentile nine represents the sun and all beautiful bright things that draw their influence from it, as the gleam of beaten gold, the rustle of silken stuffs, the smell of the flower heliotrope, and all such men as delineate human beings with colours, or make their effigy in stone or metal; moreover, Phoebus Apollo, whom the poets describe as the most beautiful of the gods, as indeed he is represented in all statues and reliefs.
A man of some real intellect and melody; some, by no means much; who was of amiable meek demeanor; studious to offend nobody, and to do whatever good he could by the established methods; and who, what was the great secret of his success, was of orthodoxy perfect and eminent. Whom, accordingly, the whole world, polite Saxon orthodox world, hailed as its Evangelist and Trismegistus.
"I long to resume the reading of Hermes Trismegistus, which contains more important secrets than these sleight-of-hand tricks." The Pharaoh signed to the old man that he might withdraw, and the silent procession returned to the depths of the palace. The King re-entered the harem with Tahoser.
God bless you! do come to England. Air and exercise may do great things. Talk with some minister. Why not your father? God dispose all for the best! I have discharged my duty. Your sincere friend, Manning had evidently written to Lamb as to his cherished project of exploring remoter China and Thibet. February, 1803. Not a sentence, not a syllable, of Trismegistus shall be lost through my neglect.
As Friedrich, by this time, probably begins to discover; though indeed to Friedrich the thing is of finite moment; by no means of infinite, as it was to Voltaire. "At worst, nothing but a little money thrown away!" thinks Friedrich: "Sure enough, this is a strange Trismegistus, this of mine: star fire-work shall we call him, or terrestrial smoke-and-soot work?
Trim's casuistry and address, under the cover of his low bow, prevented all suspicion in my uncle Toby, so he went on with what he had to say to Trim as follows: For my own part, Trim, though I can see little or no difference betwixt my nephew's being called Tristram or Trismegistus yet as the thing sits so near my brother's heart, Trim I would freely have given a hundred pounds rather than it should have happened.
This really was a respectable gentleman, and did considerable things, a Trismegistus in comparison with the Duke of Cumberland whom he succeeded. A cheerful, singularly polite, modest, well-conditioned man withal. To be slightly better known to us, if we live. He at present is a Boy of ten, chasing the thistle's beard.
He is next seen shirtless, the once very haughty, blustery, and now much-humiliated man; still conscious of supreme acumen, insight and pure science; and, though an Austrian prisoner and a monster of rags, struggling to believe that he is a genius and the Trismegistus of mankind. What a pickle!
Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the "Hermes Trismegistus," pretending to be Egyptian remains; the "Sentences" of Epictetus; of Marcus Antoninus; the "Vishnu Sarma" of the Hindoos; the "Gulistan" of Saadi; the "Imitation of Christ," of Thomas a Kempis; and the "Thoughts" of Pascal.
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