During this process I was a little frustrated because I have long nails so it was harder to hold the feather and write with it otherwise I was very focused

From this project I came to the conclusion that I’m pretty useless and that my older brother is a life saver.

I didn’t know exactly how to get the ink out of the pen

more fancier

I used ink from a pen and I popped it , I cut the feather diagonally at the tip and rip the hairs up till the middle like in the video.

it shows that they could not erase , it was ink and a feather , they would have to either make multiple drafts or get it right the first time which shows that they were very tolerant

I felt accomplished, like an 1800’s nerd or something.

As soon as the Duchess's Speech was ended, Folly and Rashness started up

Noble Friends, We are met here to hear a Cause pleaded concerning the difference between the Duke of Newcastle, and my self

The Empress's Soul perceiving this, did the like: And then the Duke had three Souls in one Body;

The reason was, that there had been a long Civil Warr in that Kingdom, in which most of the best Timber-trees and Principal Palaces were ruined and destroyed; and my dear Lord and Husband, said she, has lost by it half his Woods, besides many Houses, Land, and movable Goods; so that all the loss out of his particular Estate, did amount to above Half a Million of Pounds.

It was one of the Theatres where Comedies and Tragedies were acted.

there you shall see as powerful a Monarch as the Grand Signior

and lest the Emperor, or any of his subjects should know of her travel

At last, when the Duchess saw that no patterns would do her any good in the framing of her World; she was resolved to make a World of her own Invention

Pythagoras's Doctrine;

Thales

But we wonder, proceeded the Spirits, that you desire to be Empress of a Terrestrial World, when as you can create your self a Cœlestial World if you please. What, said the Empress, can any Mortal be a Creator? Yes, answered the Spirits; for every human Creature can create an Immaterial World fully inhabited by Immaterial Creatures, and populous of Immaterial subjects, such as we are, and all this within the compass of the head or scull; nay, not onely so, but he may create a World of what fashion and Government he will, and give the Creatures thereof such motions, figures, forms, colours, perceptions, &c. as he pleases, and make Whirl-pools, Lights, Pressures, and Reactions, &c. as he thinks best; nay, he may make a World full of Veins, Muscles, and Nerves, and all these to move by one jolt or stroke: also he may alter that World as often as he pleases, or change it from a Natural World, to an Artificial; he may make a World of Ideas, a World of Atoms, a World of Lights, or whatsoever his Fancy leads him to.

Then the Empress asked, Whether it was not possible that her dearest friend the Duchess of Newcastle, might be Empress of one of them? Although there be numerous, nay, infinite Worlds, answered the Spirits, yet none is without Government. But is none of these Worlds so weak, said she, that it may be surprized or conquered?

truly their meeting did produce such an intimate friendship between them, that they became Platonick Lovers, although they were both Femals.

the Spirit is ignorant of my hand-writing

But, said they, there's a Lady, the Duchess of Newcastle; which although she is not one of the most learned, eloquent, witty and ingenious, yet she is a plain and rational Writer; for the principle of her Writings, is Sense and Reason, and she will without question, be ready to do you all the service she can.

Whether Souls did chuse Bodies? They answered, That Platonicks believed, the Souls of Lovers lived in the Bodies of their Beloved, but surely, said they, if there be a multitude of Souls in a World of Matter, they cannot miss Bodies; for as soon as a Soul is parted from one Body, it enters into another; and Souls having no motion of themselves, must of necessity be clothed or imbodied with the next parts of Matter. If this be so, replied the Empress, then I pray inform me, Whether all matter be soulified?

They answered, That Paradise was not in the world she came from, but in that world she lived in at present; and that it was the very same place where she kept her Court, and where her Palace stood, in the midst of the Imperial City.

Ben. Johnson

Dr. Dee

since she had a great desire to know the condition of the World she came from, her request to the Spirits was, To give her some Information thereof, especially of those parts of the World where she was born, bred, and educated

And thus the Empress, by Art, and her own Ingenuity, did not onely convert the Blazing-World to her own Religion, but kept them in a constant belief, without inforcement or blood-shed; for she knew well, that belief was a thing not to be forced or pressed upon the people, but to be instilled into their minds by gentle perswasions; and after this manner she encouraged them also in all other duties and employments: for Fear, though it makes people obey, yet does it not last so long, nor is it so sure a means to keep them to their duties, as Love.

Wherefore she consulted with her own thoughts, whether it was possible to convert them all to her own Religion

Syllogistical Arguments

There is so much to learn in your Art, said she, that I can neither spare time from other affairs to busie my self in your profession; nor, if I could, do I think I should ever be able to understand your Imaginary points, lines and figures, because they are Non-beings.

Creatures as are called Monsters

Philosophers-stone

humors of several colours

the Empress being so much tired that she was not able to hear them any longer, imposed a general silenc

your Majesty may firmly believe, that there is no Body without colour, nor no Colour without body; for colour, figure, place, magnitude, and body, are all but one thing, without any separation or abstraction from each other.

Whether Gold could not be made by Art? They answered, That they could not certainly tell her Majesty, but if it was possible to be done, they thought Tin, Lead, Brass, Iron and Silver, to be the fittest Metals for such an Artificial Transmutation

that all Animal Creatures within the Seas and other waters, had blood?

After they had thus argued, the Empress began to grow angry at their Telescopes, that they could give no better Intelligence; for, said she, now I do plainly perceive, that your Glasses are false Informers, and instead of discovering the Truth, delude your Senses; Wherefore I Command you to break them, and let the Bird-men trust onely to their natural eyes, and examine Cœlestial Objects by the motions of their own Sense and Reason.

Lastly, the Empress asked the Bird-men of the nature of Thunder and Lightning?

Thus they argued concerning the heat and light of the Sun; but, which is remarkable, none did say, that the Sun was a Globous fluid body, and had a swift Circular motion; but all agreed, It was fixt and firm like a Center, and therefore they generally called it the Sun-stone

But, said she, Women and Children have no Employment in Church or State. 'Tis true, answer'd they; but, although they are not admitted to publick Employments

That as it was natural for one Body to have but one Head, so it was also natural for a Politick body to have but one Governor; and that a Common-wealth, which had many Governors was like a Monster with many Heads.

At which the Emperor rejoycing, made her his Wife, and gave her an absolute power to rule and govern all that World as she pleased. But her subjects, who could hardly be perswaded to believe her mortal, tender'd her all the Veneration and Worship due to a Deity.

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artificially

World: nor no more but one Emperor, to whom they all submitted with the greatest duty and obedience, which made them live in a continued Peace and Happiness; not acquainted with Foreign Wars or Home-bred Insurrections

finding those sorts of men civil and diligent attendants to her

Experimental Philosophers

strange Creatures, in shape like Bears, only they went upright as men

hitherto they had onely crost Rivers, but now they could not avoid the open Seas any longer

another World

Merchant travelling into a foreign Country

And of the Gold, I should desire only so much as might suffice to repair my Noble Lord and Husband's Losses

Observations upon Experimental Philosophy

no better than Egyptian Deities

as all the Treasures of the Indies are not able to purchase

Doubtless 'twas well consider'd of him, who wou'd not trust the breeding of his Son to a Slave, because nothing great or excellent could be expected from a person of that condition

muddy Pleasures of sensual Delights

It has a spe∣cial force to dilate our hearts, to deliver them from that vi∣cious selfishness and the rest of those sordid passions, which express a narrow illiberal temper, and are of such per∣nitious consequence to man∣kind.

No: Ev'ry act of our Religious Votary shall be voluntary and free, and no other tye but the Pleasure, the Glory and Ad∣vantage of this blessed Re∣tirement, to confine her to it

Money

here is a sort of Learning indeed which is worse than the greatest Igno∣rance: A woman may study Plays and Romances all her days, & be a great deal more knowing, but never a jot the wiser. Such a Knowledge as this serves only to instruct and put her forward in the practice of the greatest Fol∣lies;

Being the Soul was created for the contemplation of Truth, as well as for the fruition of Good, is it not as cruel and unjust to preclude Women from the knowledge of the one, as well as from the en∣joyment of the other?

It shall not so cut you off from the world, as to hinder you from bettering and improv∣ing it; but rather qualify you to do it the greatest Good, and be a Seminary to stock the Kingdom with pious and prudent Ladies

You are therefore Ladies, invited into a place, where you shall suffer no other con∣finement, but to be kept out of the road of sin: You shall not be depriv'd of your grandeur, but only exchange the vain Pomps and Pagean∣try of the world, empty Ti∣tles and Forms of State, for the true and solid Greatness of being able to dispise them. You will only quit the Chat of insignificant people, for an ingenious Conversation; the froth of flashy wit for real wisdom; idle tales for instruc¦tive discourses.

And now having discove∣red the Disease and its cause, 'tis proper to apply a Reme∣dy; single Medicines are too weak to cure such compli∣cated Distempers, they re∣quire a full Dispensatory

Doubtless a truly Christian Life requires a clear Understanding, as well as regular Affections, that both together may move the Will to a direct choice of Good, and a sted∣fast adherence to it. For tho the heart may be honest, it is but by chance that the Will is right, if the Under∣standing be ignorant and Cloudy.

By an habitual inadvertency we render our selves incapable of any serious & improving thought, till our minds themselves become as light and frothy as those things they are conversant about.

Will she who has a jot of discernment think to satisfy her greedy desire of Plea∣sure, with those promising nothings that have again & again deluded her? Or, will she to obtain such Bubbles, run the risque of forfeiting Joys, infinitely satisfying and eternal? In sum, did not ignorance impose on us, we would never lavish out the greatest part of our Time and Care, on the decoration of a Tenement, in which our Lease is so very short, and which for all our indust∣ry, may lose it's Beauty e're that Lease be out, and in the mean while neglect a Page  44 more glorious and durable Mansion! We wou'd never be so curious of the House, and so careless of the Inha∣bitant, whose beauty is ca∣pable of great improvement, and will endure for ever without diminution or de∣cay!

pro∣fane noisy Nonsense of men, whose Fore-heads are better than their Brains to pass un∣der that Character

Act V

What Makes an Interpretq,{ia.n Acceptable?

"Never ... is the word 'forest' used by Blake in any context in which it does not refer to the natural, 'fallen' world" (p·48)

semester