Though a certain kind of paper is manufactured from bamboo pulp, the usual material of the books is the palm leaf, while for ordinary notebook purposes a kind of black tablet, called a parabeik, and a steatite pencil are employed.
Whereby it appeareth that their miserie commeth not from others, as an accidentall occasion, but groweth from themselues as the proper cause: neither is it an ordinarie euill that is recurable, but a desperate ruine that is remedilesse: neither yet is it the subuersion of their state, or killing of their bodie, which is but temporarie, but the perdition both of bodie and soule which is euerlasting.
Wierus (Johann Wier or Weier, 1515-'88, physician to the duke of Cleves, opponent of belief in sorcery), demonographer, his infernal court, V. 794, 2 c.
The group of small bodies that circle round the Sun, outside the orbit of Mars, are known under the designation of the planetoids.
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