Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds… (1852)
“ N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce, En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse; Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soins Ne different entre eux que du plus ou du moins. ”
Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds… (1852)
“ Popular notions of the devil—Inferior demons—Demons of both sexes—Demons preferring the night between Friday and Saturday—The devil in the shape of a goat—Sorcery—Execution of Joan of Arc—Witches burned in Europe—Various charges of Witchcraft—Trois Echelles—The Witches of Warbois—John Knox—Torture of Dr. ”
Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds… (1852)
“ PAGE. Pope Urban preaching the first Crusade.—Frontispiece.) View in the Harz Mountains. (Capt. Batty's Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery.) —Title-page.) Initial—Crusaders' Weapons of the eleventh century 1 Peter the Hermit preaching 1 Cathedral at Clermont. (Sommerard's Album) 9 Nicée, Asia Minor. (Leon de Laborde's Voyage en Orient) 19 Godfrey of Bouillon. (From the Statue by Simonis, Brussels) 22 Siege of Antioch 33 The Holy Lance. (Copied, in Hone's Everyday Book, from a very rare print published by the Ecclesiastics of Nuremberg) 37 Shrine of the Nativity, Bethlehem. ”
