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[…] Paracelsus and some few other sooty Empiricks, rather then (as they are fain to call themselves) Philosophers, having their eyes darken'd, and their Brains troubl'd with the smoke of their own Furnaces, began to rail at the Peripatetick Doctrine, which they were too illiterate to understand […]

[…] you can create a costume that is a facsimile of a bee, or you can attach a couple of yellow and black ribbons to your skirt and perhaps put some antennae-like things in your hair and thereby call to mind a certain beeishness.

Because they are styled the executive, executive officers, &c., by their Jenkinses, and are declared by the same authorities to possess unbounded knowledge, and transcendent executive ability, they sometimes fancy themselves the Czar, the Shah, or the Grand Turk […]