Practical Palmistry: A Clear and Common-sense Explanation of the Science by Means of which Everyone May Read His Own Charater and Foretell His Own Future and Fate |
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able artistic asthma aura brain brain-power bronchitis character chiromancy clairvoyance clever colour courage cross danger death deep line denotes Denton faculty FATE PLATE Fate-line feel finger of Jupiter finger of Mercury fluted nails fork gives gratified ambition Head-line Health-line honour ill-health illnesses indicates Life-line line going LINE OF FATE Line of Fortune LINE OF HEART LINE OF INTUITION LINE OF MARRIAGE LITTLE TRIANGLE Loss of money love-marriage marks MARRIAGE PLATE Marriage-line metrist misfortune mount of Apollo mount of Jupiter mount of Luna mount of Mars mount of Mercury mount of Saturn mount of Venus narrow quadrangle object occult opposite sex palmistry palmists person plain of Mars probably psycho psychometry QUADRANGLE PLATE rascette RINGS OF SATURN Second Mars seen self-confidence sensitive shows SIGNS ON FINGERS soul spiritual star success temper things thumb top phalange triangle trouble VOYAGE-LINES WHITE SPOTS will-power
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Page 19 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
Page 189 - The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what is ; while unto me All that has been is visible and clear.
Page 232 - ... centrifugal force had carried it off into space again, whence, drawn by the superior attractive force of the earth, it had fallen, and its planetary career ended forever? Large fire-balls have been seen approaching the earth, and" then flying off again apparently in this very manner. EXPERIMENT...
Page 20 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee ; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 207 - The events may be in some sense existent always, both past and future, and it may be we who are arriving at them, not they which are happening. The analogy of a traveller in a railway train is useful. If he could never leave the train nor alter its pace, he would probably...
Page 20 - A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart is at his left. Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
Page 233 - My impression is that it is a part of some monstrous animal, probably a part of a tooth. I feel like a perfect monster, with h'eavy legs, unwieldy head, and very large body. I go down to a shallow stream to drink. (I can hardly speak, my jaws are so heavy.) I feel like getting down on all fours. " What a noise comes through the wood ! I have an impulse to answer it. My ears are very large and leathery, and I can almost fancy they flap my face as I move my head. There are some older ones than I. (It...
Page 19 - For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth ; Likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. He sealeth up the hand of every man ; That all men may know his work.
Page 193 - But we never knows wot's hidden in each other's hearts ; and if we had glass winders there, we'd need keep the shetters up, some on us, I do assure you ! " " But you don't mean to say, " Poll Sweedlepipe began. " No," said Mrs. Gamp, cutting him very short, " I don't. Don't think I do. The torters of the Imposition shouldn't make me own I did. All I says is...
Page 233 - ... very large body. I go down to a shallow stream to drink. I can hardly speak, my jaws are so heavy. I feel like getting down on all fours. What a noise comes through the wood. I have an impulse to answer it. My ears are very large and leathery, and I can almost fancy they flap my face as I move my head. There are some older ones than I. It seems, too, so out of keeping to be talking with these heavy jaws.