Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed, or, A familiar, easy and new method whereby to judge of the most general accidents of mans life from the lines of the hand withal its dimensions and significations as also that most useful piece of astrology (long since promised) concerning elections for every particular occasion, now plainly manifested from rational principles of art, not published till now / by Richard Saunders ...

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Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed, or, A familiar, easy and new method whereby to judge of the most general accidents of mans life from the lines of the hand withal its dimensions and significations as also that most useful piece of astrology (long since promised) concerning elections for every particular occasion, now plainly manifested from rational principles of art, not published till now / by Richard Saunders ...
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Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675.
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London :: Printed by H.B. for G. Sawbridge ...,
1663.
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Palmistry -- Early works to 1850.
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"Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed, or, A familiar, easy and new method whereby to judge of the most general accidents of mans life from the lines of the hand withal its dimensions and significations as also that most useful piece of astrology (long since promised) concerning elections for every particular occasion, now plainly manifested from rational principles of art, not published till now / by Richard Saunders ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62237.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.

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A Brief Table OF THE Principal Matters Contained in this First Book.

A.
  • ACtions of men various, why? Fol. p. 13.
  • Answers to Nice Questions. Fol. p. 8, 9.
  • Andaciousness the Sigues. Fol. p. 136.
  • Authors Eminent in Palmistry. Fol. p. 5.
  • Artist good, the Signes. Fol. p. 156.
B.
  • Bashfulness the Signes. Fol. p. 140.
  • Blood-shedding. Fol. p. 76.
  • Brain, the Signes. Fol. p. 119.
  • Brain cold and dry. Fol. p. ibid.
  • Brain Moist the Signes. Fol. p. 120.
  • Benevolent Person the Signes. Fol. p. 146.

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  • ...
    • Babler the Signes. Fol. p. 151.
C.
  • Carelesness the Signes. Fol. p. 140.
  • Chassiry the Signes. Fol. p. 89.
  • Childbed danger the Signes. Fol. p. 102.
  • Chyromancy and Astrology the same in Effect. Fol. p. 15.
  • Chirocopia, what? Fol. p. 1, 2.
  • Conciliator when flourished. Fol. p. 9.
  • Chollerick temperament the signes. Fol. p. 81. 91.
  • Complexion good. Fol. p. 115.
  • Considerations of much weight be∣fore judgement, from Fol. p. 18. to 24.
  • Covetousnesse the signes. Fol. p. 147.
  • Courteous and Civil person the signes Fol. p. 147.
  • Churlish Conditions, the signes. Fol. p. 12. 148.
D.
  • Death by violence the signes. Fol. p. 39. 40.
  • Death By poyson the signes. Fol. p. 96.
  • Death, the signes thereof from page Fol. 109. 114.
  • Deliverance in Child-bed good. Fol. p. 90.
  • Debt signes of one suffering thereby. Fol. p. 65.

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  • ...
    • Difference of lines, whence? Fol. p. 14, 15.
    • Dissembler the signes. Fol. p. 145.
    • Dull disposition. Fol. p. 149.
E.
  • Ecclesiastical preferments the signes. Fol. p. 86.
  • Effeminate, when? Fol. p. 19.
  • Envy the signes. Fol. p. 153.
F.
  • Fearfulness the signes. Fol. p. 134.
  • Fidelity the signes. Fol. p. 90, 91. 139.
  • Fingers measured. Fol. p. 28.
  • Fegmatick Constitution. Fol. p. 116.
  • Folly the signes. Fol. p. 129.
  • Fortitude. Fol. p. 133.
  • Flatterer the signes. Fol. p. 146.
G.
  • Genius good the signes. Fol. p. 124.
  • Genius Dull. Fol. p. 126.
  • Generation, and corruption the causes. Fol. p. 6.
H.
  • Hands measured by compasse. Fol. p. 30.
  • Hand which to be judged Fol. p. 16.
  • Hands due praportion. Fol. p. 20. 26. to 0.
  • Heavens motion what. Fol. p. 6.
  • Hearts temperament, hot Fol. p. 120. cold.
  • ibid. dry, ibid.

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  • ...
    • Hurts in secret parts. Fol. p. 74.
    • Husbands how many. Fol. p. 88, 89.
    • Humility the signes. Fol. p. 150.
    • Hasty person. Fol. p. 153.
I.
  • Impostures censured. Fol. p. 10, 11, 12.
  • Inheritance. Fol. p. 88.
  • Ingenuity good the-signes. Fol. p. 123.
  • Immodesty signes. Fol. p. 140.
  • Judgement sound, signes thereof. Fol. p. 128.
  • Justice, signes thereof. Fol. p. 132.
  • Ignoble natures the signes. Fol. p. 155.
K.
  • Kings Honoured by Astrology. Fol. p. 6.
  • Sr. Kenelmne Digby, on causes. Fol. p. 7.
L.
  • A Line what. Fol. p. 3.
  • Lines of the hand their different names and quallifications. Fol. p. 3. 22. 23.
  • Laborious person the signes. Fol. p. 148.
  • Lazy person the signes. Fol. p. 149.
  • Nature of the Lines. Fol. p. 4.
  • Lines in the hand caused by the pla∣nets. Fol. p. 10.
  • Lines in the hand, whence? Fol. p. 13, 14.
  • Liver-line measured. Fol. p. 28, 29, 30.
  • Line of life measured from Fol. p. 31 to 35.

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  • ...
    • Life long, from Fol. p. 70. to 91.
    • Life short from Fol. p. 93. to 97.
    • Life troublesom. Fol. p. 78.
    • Life may be several wayes abridged. Fol. p. 85.
    • Law Preferments. Fol. p. 86.
    • Lust vide Whoredom.
    • Luxury signes thereof. Fol. p. 83.
    • Lyer the signes thereof. Fol. p. 145.
M.
  • Meekness the signes. Fol. p. 141.
  • Melancholy Constitution. Fol. p. 118.
  • Memory good. Fol. p. 127.
  • Memory bad the signes. Fol. p. 128.
  • Murther the signes. Fol. p. 67.
  • Merciful person the signes. Fol. p. 152.
  • Mechanick ingenious the signes Fol. p. 156.
N.
  • Names of all the lines. Fol. p. 22, 23.
  • Natural line measured from Fol. p. 35. to 38.
  • Noble Nature the signes. Fol. p. 153.
O.
  • Observations to be noted before judg∣ment from Fol. p. 17. to p. 21.
P.
  • Palmistry its Antiquity. Fol. p. 9. 11.
  • Palmistry more certain then other

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  • ...
    • Arts. Fol. p. 10.
    • Palmistry owned by all the Learned and Highly Honoured. Fol. p. 13.
    • Palmistry what it is? Fol. p. 17.
    • Palsie the signes. Fol. p. 68.
    • Plain honesty the signes. Fol. p. 131.
    • Play, fortune thereby, signes thereof. Fol. p. 68.
    • Perfideousness signes thereof. Fol. p. 103, 104. 139.
    • Poverty in all its kinds and causes, signes thereof from Fol. p. 57. to 71.
    • Practical part of Chiromancy. Fol. p. 17.
    • Imprisonment, signes thereof. Fol. p. 101.
    • Pride the signes. Fol. p. 150.
Q.
Quietness of life, the signes. Fol. p. 187.
R.
  • Riches, signes thereof. Fol. p. 41, 42, 43, to 57. caution therein. 41. how many wayes obtained, ibid.
  • Riches by women. Fol. p. 56.
  • Riches by Cattel. Fol. p. 57.
  • Riches by Musick. Fol. p. 57.
  • And many other wayes, ibid.
  • Robberies prejudice thereby: signet. Fol. p. 67.
S.

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  • ...
    • Sanguine Constitution signes thereof. Fol. p. 117.
    • Sickness, how to know beforehand. Fol. p. from 105. to 108.
    • Sincerity the signes. Fol. p. 144.
    • Stupidity the signes. Fol. p. 139.
    • Suits and Controversies by Law. Fol. p. 87.
    • Secresie, the Symptomes. Fol. p. 151.
T.
  • Table-line measured from Fol. p. 36. to 39.
  • Temperance, signes thereof. Fol. p. 136.
  • Theory of Palmistry from Fol. p. 1. to 23.
  • Intemperance, signes thereof. Fol. p. 137.
  • Teeth big, what? Fol. p. 84.
  • Thief, who? Fol. p. 67.
V.
  • Vagabond, signes thereof. Fol. p. 67.
  • Venerious the signes. Fol. p. 138.
  • Violent Death, signes thereof. Fol. p. 39, 40.
  • Vitals strong, signes thereof. Fol. p. 80.
  • Virginity and Chastity signes. Fol. p. 84.
  • Union between Astrnomy and Pal∣mistry. Fol. p. 10.
  • Unstable in Conditions signes thereof. Fol. p. 77.
  • Ungrateful, signes thereof. Fol. p. 57. 103.

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  • ...
    • Unjust signe thereof. Fol. p. 323.
W.
  • Wives how many and what. Fol. p. 88, 89.
  • Wisdom and Prudente the signes Fol. p. 128.
  • Woman a Virago. Fol. p. 19.
  • Riches by Women.
  • VVhoredom. Fol. p. 98, 99.
  • VVounds on the head. Fol. p. 68.
  • VVounds on the body. Fol. p. 73, 74.
  • VVounds in the secret parts. Fol. p. 74.
  • VVrathfulnesse signes thereof. Fol. p. 142.
Y.
Youth, dye in youth. Fol. p. 93.
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