Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay [best inspirational books TXT] 📗

to obtain shares (engraving), 18; avarice and ambition of the speculators; robberies and murders, 20; a broker murdered by Count d’Horn, and robbed of shares (engraving), 21; temporary stimulus to trade, and illusive prosperity; Law purchases estates, and turns Catholic, 24; his charity and modesty, 25; caricatures of him, as Atlas, 25; “Lucifer’s new row barge,” 29; in a car drawn by cocks, 40; increase of luxury in Paris, 26; the Regent purchases the great diamond, 27; symptoms of distrust; coin further depreciated, 28; use of specie forbidden, at Law’s suggestion, 29; popular hatred excited, 30; fall of shares, 31; conscription for the Mississippi gold mines (engraving), 31; further issue of notes, and increased distrust and distress, 32; payment stopped, and Law dismissed from the ministry, 33; his danger from the populace, 33, 35, 38; D’Aguesseau’s measures to restore credit (portrait), 34; run on the Bank, 34; fatal accidents in the crowd, 34; the Mississippi and India companies deprived of their privileges, 39; Law leaves France, 40; D’Argenson’s dismissal and unpopularity, 42; Law’s subsequent history and death, 43; caricatures of the scheme in its success and failure, 25, 29, 37, 40, 44. Modern prophecies, i. 222-241. Mohra, in Sweden, absurd charges of witchcraft, and numerous executions, ii. 177. Mohun, Lord, his duel with the Duke of Hamilton, ii. 290. Mompesson, Mr., his “haunted house” at Tedworth, ii. 224. Money Mania. (See the Mississippi Scheme and South-Sea Bubble.) Montesquieu “Esprit des Loix,” ii. 262-267. Montgomery and Macnamara, frivolous cause of their fatal duel, ii. 297. More, Hannah, on animal magnetism, i. 287. Mormius, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 178. Mortlake, Dr. Dee’s house at, i. 153, 162. Moses cited by alchymists as an adept, i. 95; claimed as a Rosicrucian, 175. Moustaches, fashion of wearing, i. 302. Mummies, an ingredient in charms and nostrums, i. 271. Munting’s history of the tulip mania, i. 87. Nadel, Mausch, a German robber, ii. 257. Naiades. (See the Rosicrucians.) Nantwich, Nixon’s prophecy of its fate, i. 240. Naples, arrest and execution of La Tophania, the slow poisoner, ii. 207. Napoleon’s willow at St. Helena and other relics, ii. 307. Naudé, Gabriel, his exposure of the Rosicrucians, i. 173. Necromancy, its connexion with alchymy, i. 129; danger of its practice, 250. New England, women, a child, and a dog, executed as witches, ii. 180. Nice besieged by the Crusaders, ii. 26. Nixon, Robert, the Cheshire prophet, i. 238. Noah, the patriarch, a successful alchymist, i. 95. Noises. (See Haunted Houses.) Normandy, witches in, ii. 172. Nostradamus, the astrologer; his prophecies (portrait), i. 246. Oath on the Evangelists and holy relics, a test of innocence, ii. 264. Odomare, a French alchymist, i. 136. Official peculation in France under the Regent Orleans, i. 7. Omens: winding-sheets, howling dogs, death-watch, “coffins,” shivering, walking under ladders, upsetting salt, thirteen at table, piebald horses, sneezing, dogs, cats, bees, itching; Oriental belief in omens, i. 255. (See Comets, Falling Stars, and Meteors.) Oneiro-criticism; interpreting dreams. (See Dreams.) Ordeals. (See Duels and Ordeals.) Orleans, Duke of. (Regent of France) portrait of; his patronage of the Mississippi Scheme, i. 5; his financial errors, 10, 12, 33, 41; enforces the execution of Count D’Horn for murder, 23; his purchase of the celebrated diamond, 27; his ill-treatment of Law, 33. Orleans, Duchess of, her remarks on the Mississippi scheme, i. 5, 19, 24, 35, 36. Ortholani, a French alchymist, i 136. Overbury, Sir Thomas, portrait of, ii. 195; poisoned by the Earl and Countess of Somerset and their accomplices, 193-201. Palestine. (See the Crusades.) Palmistry. (See Fortune-Telling.) Paper currency, introduced in France by John Law, i. 4. Paracelsus, memoir and portrait of, i. 142; his singular doctrines, 145; the first of the magnetisers, 262. Paris, the Palais Royal (engraving), i. 12; John Law’s house, Rue de Quincampoix (engraving), 13; Hotel de Soissons (engraving), 16; incidents of the Mississippi scheme (four engravings), i. 15, 18, 21, 31; the Place de Grêve (engraving), ii. 192; the Bastile (engraving), ii. 209; house of Nicholas Flamel, in the rue de Marivaux, i. 118; the Rosicrucians in, i. 170-173; Mesmer’s house; his experiments, 278. Parsons and his family, concoctors of the “Cock Lane Ghost” deception, ii. 228. Paul’s Cross, Dr. Lamb, the poisoner, attacked and killed there (engraving), ii. 202. Persecution of alleged witches. (See Witches.) Peter the Great taxes beards (portrait), i. 267. Peter the Hermit. (See the Crusades.) Peter of Lombardy, an alchymist, i. 136. Peter of Pontefract, his false prophecies described by Grafton, i. 234. Petronella, the wife of Nicholas Flamel, i. 116. Philalethes, Eugenius, a Rosicrucian, i. 175. Philip I. excommunicated, ii. 8. Philip Augustus joins the third crusade (engraving), ii. 64, 66; his jealousy of Richard I., 69, 71; returns to France, 72. Philip IV., portrait of, ii. 112; his persecution of the Templars, ii. 113. Philosopher’s stone, searchers for the. (See Alchymists.) Pietro D’Apone. (See D’Apone.) Pigray on witchcraft in France, ii. 122. Pilgrimages to Jerusalem before the Crusades, ii. 2. Pilgrim’s staff (engraving), ii. 56. Place de Grêve (engraving), ii. 192; Madame de Brinvilliers; La Chaussée and others executed there for poisoning, 212, 213, 215. Plague at Milan prophesied, i. 225. Plays on the adventures of thieves, their evil influence, ii. 253, 257. Poisoning, in Greece and Rome; its spread in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; declared high treason in England, ii. 192; Sir Thomas Overbury poisoned; full history of his case, with portraits of Overbury, the Earl and Countess of Somerset, Lord Coke, and Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 193-201; suspicious death of Prince Henry, son of James I., 200; Buckingham said to have poisoned James I., 201; fate of Dr. Lamb, the poisoner (engraving), 202; slow poisoning in Italy, its general prevalence; employed by the Duke of Guise; much used by Roman ladies to poison husbands, 203; trial and execution of La Spara and others; other women punished, 204; atrocious crimes of La Tophania; the nature of her poison; protected in sanctuary by the clergy of Naples; seized by the viceroy, tried, and executed, 206-208. In France: Exili, Glaser, and Sainte Croix, the first criminals, 208; Madame de Brinvilliers and Sainte Croix; their crimes and punishment, 208-214; M. de Penautier charged with poisoning; popular mania for the crime, 214; Lavoisin and Lavigoreux executed, 215; charges against the Marshal de Luxembourg and the Countess of Soissons; recent revival of the crime in England, 216. Pope, his sketch of Sir John Blunt, Chairman of the South-Sea Company, i. 74. Popular Follies of Great Cities, ii. 239-248. Cant or slang phrases: “Quoz,” 240; “What a shocking bad hat,” 240; “Hookey Walker,” 241; “There he goes with his eye out,” 242; “Has your mother sold her mangle?” 242; “Flare up,” 242; “Does your mother know you’re out?” 244; “Who are you?” 244. Songs: “Cherry ripe,” 246; “The Sea,” 247; “Jim Crow,” 247. Portraits.—John Law, i. 1; the Regent Orleans, 5; D’Aguesseau, 34; D’Argenson, 42; Earl of Sunderland, 80; Harley Earl of Oxford, 46; Sir Robert Walpole, 49; Mr. Secretary Craggs, 64; Conrad Gesner, the first tulip cultivator, 85; Albertus Magnus, 100; Arnold de Villeneuve, 103; Raymond Lulli, 105; Cornelius Agrippa, 138; Panacelsus, 142; Dr. Dee, 152; Philip IV., ii. 112; Charles IX., 119; John Knox, 128; James I., 134; Sir George Mackenzie, 138; Pietro d’Apone, 140; Sir Matthew Hale, 148; Sir Thomas Brown, 151; Louis XIV., 177; Henry Andrews, the original of “Francis Moore,” i. 244; Nostradamus, 246; Peter the Great, 267; Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 195; Villiers duke of Buckingham, 198; Lord Chief Justice Coke, 199; Earl and Countess of Somerset, 200, 201; Henry IV. of France, 277; Lord Bacon, 286. Political prejudices and enactments against long hair and beards, i. 296-303. Poetry and romance, their obligations to the Rosicrucians, i. 179. Powell, Chief Justice, his opposition to the belief in witchcraft, ii. 152. Prophecies: Plague of Milan, i. 225; plague of London, 1665, inundation of London, 1528, 228; great fire, 1666; earthquake, 1842, 230; Mother Shipton, with view of her cottage, 232, 241; Merlin, 232-238; Peter of Pontefract, 234; Robert Nixon the Cheshire prophet, 238; almanac-makers, 240 (see Fortune-Telling); end of the world, 222, 224; earthquakes, 224. (See Modern Prophecies, the Crusades, Peter Barthelemy, &c.) Puysegur, the Marquis de, his discovery of clairvoyance; his magnetic elm, i. 283-286. Raising the dead and absent, a power ascribed to Cornelius Agrippa, i. 142; and Cagliostro, 217. Raleigh, Sir Walter, an inveterate duellist, abandons the custom, ii. 297. Raymond of Toulouse, a leader of the first crusade, ii. 21, 26, 29, 31, 34, 45, 46; his supposed collusion with Peter Barthelemy, 35, 37, 41; at the siege of Jerusalem, 46. Raymond Lulli. (See Lulli.) Reinaldo, a leader of the