Volume 1

An historical account of mandrakes, both male and female. With a particular account of those which Rachel longed for.

Date:
1741
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical account of mandrakes, both male and female. With a particular account of those which Rachel longed for. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mentions their Learning with the utmoft Veneration. Macrobius fays, that they were the moft learned People in the World, and c*dls them in one Place, Om- mum Philojbphice Difciplinarum Parentes (<2), and in another Place, Solos omnium rerum divinarum confcios (b). But that which raifes in us the gran deft Ideas of the Egyptian Literature, is that Teftimony given of it in Scripture, where in order to difplay the Wifdom of Solomon, it is laid to have exceeded all the Wifdom of the Children of the Eajl, and all the Wifdom af Egypt, (c) Tho’ theft are fufficient Teftimonies of the Learning of this Peo¬ ple, it is evident that there is nothing of it remaining that in any degree comes up to thofe Encomiums conferr’d upon it by the beft Writers in Antiquity. -- We know nothing of their Theology till it was funk to the lowed: Degree of Stupi¬ dity, and render’d them juftly the Jeft and Contempt of all other Nations. Rome itfelf, the Seat pf all Idolatry and Super- ftition, had fo mean an Opinion of their religious Rites and Ceremonies, that A- lex and. ah Alexandra tells us, the States had even prohibited their Introduction a7 {a) In Sonin. 'Scipion p. 74. (£) Saturnal. p. 222. (c) 1 King. Ch. iv. ver. 29. 1 mong