 | Elias Ashmole - 1774 - 422 pages
...brother's projection. Dr. Dee died at Mortlack in Surrey, very poor, enforced many times to fell fome book or other to buy his dinner with, as Dr. Napier of Linford in Buckinghamfhire oft related, who knew him very well. I have read over his book of Conference with Spirits,... | |
 | William Lilly - 1822 - 342 pages
...sister lived in Worcester, who had some gold made by her brother's projection. Dr. Dee died at Mortlack in Surrey, very • poor, enforced many times to sell...Buckinghamshire, oft related, who knew him very well. I have read over his book of Conference with Spirits, and thereby perceive many weaknesses in the manage... | |
 | James Thorne - 1847 - 480 pages
...a new king reigned who knew not John, his star declined. " Dr. Dee," says Lilly, " died at Mortlake very poor, enforced many times to sell some book or other to buy his dinner with," — a sorry sort of transmutation for one who had been concerned in changing base pewter into sterling... | |
 | William Gaspey - 1851 - 496 pages
...raising spirits, he found great difficult}', towards the close of his career, in raising the wind; being enforced " many times to sell some book or other to buy his dinner with ;" for every magician cannot exorcise the most terrible of all fiends, hunger. He died at Mortlake,... | |
 | 1853 - 1032 pages
...aged 81, leaving a numerous family and a great number of works behind him. ' He died," says Lilly, * very poor, enforced many times to sell some book or...Buckinghamshire, oft related, who knew him very well.' Had Dee lived in better times, his great talents, application, and ambition would have won for him... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 440 pages
...had a sister living at Worcester, who had some gold made by her brother's projection." Dr. Dee died at Mortlake, in Surrey, very poor, enforced many times...or other to buy his dinner with, as Dr. Napier of Lingford, in Buckinghamshire, oft related, who knew him very well : " I have read over his book of... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 442 pages
...had a sister living at Worcester, who had some gold made by her brother's projection." Dr. Dee died at Mortlake, in Surrey, very poor, enforced many times...or other to buy his dinner with, as Dr. Napier of Lingford, in Buckinghamshire, oft related, who knew him very well : " I have read over his book of... | |
 | Joseph Bosworth - 1858 - 38 pages
...multorum Cod. antiquorum beneficio adhuc fruuntur, quorum jactura alias deploranda foret. Catal. nSS his collection2, a large sum, in those days, for a...6th 1583, it must have been disposed of before that year4. It has not been ascertained through how many hands it passed before it came into the possession... | |
 | Paulus Orosius - 1859 - 222 pages
...Though holding some absurd opinions on astrology, he was a most diligent and liberal collector of MSS.1, for, it is said, he expended upwards of three thousand...his difficulties, it is probable that this fine old Anglo. Saxon MS. of Orosius was sold. As it is not found in the catalogue of his MSS., written, as... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 456 pages
...that it was formerly the property of Dr. John Dee, the astrologer. Dee spent 3000?. on MSS., and died poor, " enforced many times to sell some book or other to buy his dinner with." In Wanley's Catalogue Hickes's title of Lauderdale MS. is preserved. The Duke of Lauderdale married... | |
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Dr. Dee died at Mortlack in Surrey, very • poor, enforced many times to sell some book or other to buy his dinner with, as Dr. Napier of Linford, in Buckinghamshire, oft related, who knew him very well. 
