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ORACLES OF NOSTRADAMUS

BY CHARLES A. WARD

London, The Leadenhall Press; New York, C. Scribner & Welford

[1891]

Scanned, Proofed and Formatted by John Bruno Hare at sacred-texts.com, June 2003. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.

"Gentem quidem nullam video, neque tam humanam atque aoctam neque tam immanem tamque barbaram, quæ non significari futura, et a quibasdam intelligi praedicique posse censeat."

CICERO, De Divinatione, i. 2.

'Quorum potentia intellectualis immediate à Deo agitata creditur, prophetæ dicuntur; quorum voluntas heroës; at quorum intellectus et voluntas censetur agitata à potentiis invisibilibus dependentibus, appellantur magi."

--CHRIST. THOMASIUS, in Brunck, Hist. Phil. v. 512.

Tu te mocques aussi des prophètes que Dieu
Choisit en tes enfants et les fait au milieu
De ton sein apparoître, afin de te prédire
Ton malheur à venir; mais tu n'en fais que rire.
Ou soit que le grand Dieu l'immense éternité
Ait de Nostradamus l'enthousiasme excité,
Ou soit que le démon bon ou mauvais l'agite ...
Comme un oracle antique, il a de mainte année
Prédit la plus grand part de nostre destinée."

RONSARD, To Nostradamus.

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