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 it, and purged (as we have said) their ills both of body and soul, they remain more acceptable to God, and in sounder health and better plight to go on with their adventure,"

Hist. del R. D. Jayme, L. 6, C. 2. Miedes might have improved sea-sickness still farther, if the grand discoveries of Swedenborg had been known in his time, or if he had remembered the opinions of his own countryman Huarte, who, though as wild and visionary a theorist as the most visionary of his own days, has had the good luck to be cried up as a philosopher in ours, for some imagined resemblance to the ridiculous fancy of Helvetius The great Swedish Ouranographist, whose discoveries were not always confined to heaven, discovered that all diseases were the works of evil spirits, and in particular that the foul spirits who are ripening for Hell, and take delight in putridity, gee into our insides and manufacture for