Aristotle's legacy: or, his golden cabinet of secrets opened. In five treatices 1. The wheel of fortune. 2. The art of Palmestry. 3. A treatise of moles 4. The interpreter of dreams. 5. Observations on fortunate and unfortunate days. With many other secrets and experiments, never before published. To which is added, a compleat book of riddles. 1. The fortune teller, or knowledge of good & bad fortune, ... 7. Also the best and most powerful receipt for making love powder. To which are added twenty merry and pleasant riddles, with their solutions or explanations: the whole illustrated throughout with curious cuts, proper to each particular: being the best, most exact, and accomplished book of this nature.
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- Aristotle's legacy: or, his golden cabinet of secrets opened. In five treatices 1. The wheel of fortune. 2. The art of Palmestry. 3. A treatise of moles 4. The interpreter of dreams. 5. Observations on fortunate and unfortunate days. With many other secrets and experiments, never before published. To which is added, a compleat book of riddles. 1. The fortune teller, or knowledge of good & bad fortune, ... 7. Also the best and most powerful receipt for making love powder. To which are added twenty merry and pleasant riddles, with their solutions or explanations: the whole illustrated throughout with curious cuts, proper to each particular: being the best, most exact, and accomplished book of this nature.
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- [London] :: Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge,
- [1699]
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- Riddles -- Early works to 1800.
- Fortune-telling -- Early works to 1800.
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"Aristotle's legacy: or, his golden cabinet of secrets opened. In five treatices 1. The wheel of fortune. 2. The art of Palmestry. 3. A treatise of moles 4. The interpreter of dreams. 5. Observations on fortunate and unfortunate days. With many other secrets and experiments, never before published. To which is added, a compleat book of riddles. 1. The fortune teller, or knowledge of good & bad fortune, ... 7. Also the best and most powerful receipt for making love powder. To which are added twenty merry and pleasant riddles, with their solutions or explanations: the whole illustrated throughout with curious cuts, proper to each particular: being the best, most exact, and accomplished book of this nature." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75577.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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- OF THE Wheel of Fortune.
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The whole Art of
Palmestry, or tellingFortunes by theHand; and first of theHand to be chosen, and thePlanets andSigns Governing the parts of it. -
The several lines of the Hand, by which a True Judgment (in telling
Fortunes ) must be made. - Fortune, Good or Bad, known by the Lines, and other Marks and Characters, in the Hands of Men, Women, and Children.
- Sacred Characters, Marks, or Letters in the Hand, Relating to good or bad Fortune, in Men, Women, or Children.
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Phisognomy, or good and bad
ortune, told by the Lines of the ace; and first of the Planets, and governing Signs. -
Good or Bad Fortune known by the Eyes, Nose Mouth, Ears,
&c. of Men or Women. - Good or bad Fortune known by the Hair, Chin, and Eye-brows, of Man or Woman.
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and Bad Fortune known by the Lies, Marks, and other Significations in the Fore∣h ad, and other parts of the Faces of Men d Women. -
Dreams, as they tend to good or bad Fortune, with theirinterpretations. - Other Advantagious ways particularly Relating to Love and Marriage, Approved and Successful.
- Signs of Love, and speedy Marriage; or the contrary, by seeing or meeting divers sorts of Creatures, first in a morning.
- Moles on the Face, their signification, as they relate to Good or Bad Fortune in Men, Women, and Children.
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Good or Bad Fortune signified by Moles in the Bodyes of Men or Women,
&c. - Curious Merry Riddles on sundry matters, to pass away the time in harmless mirth, and witty Recreation.
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