importance; the servile flattery that awaited him wherever he went was so grateful to his mind that he could not willingly relinquish it, and run upon certain detection at the court of the monarch. Upon one pretext or another he delayed his journey, notwithstanding the earnest solicitations of his good friend the bishop. The
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THE ALCHYMISTS; OR Searchers for the Philosopher’s Stone and the Water of Life.
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