Stood Collatine and all his lordly crew.
Shakespeare, Lucrece.
The knaves that lay in wait behind rose up and rolled down two huge stones, whereof the one smote the king upon the head, the other astonished his shoulder.—Holland, Livy, p. 1124.
The cramp-fish [the torpedo] knoweth her own force and power, and being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others.—Id. Pliny, vol. i. p. 261.
In matters of religion, blind, astonished, and struck with superstition as with a planet; in one word, monks.—Milton, History of England, b. ii.
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As ‘chemist’ only little by little disengaged itself from ‘alchemist,’ and that, whether we have respect to the thing itself, or the name of the thing, so ‘astronomer’ from ‘astrologer,’ ‘astronomy’ from ‘astrology.’ It was long before the broad distinction between the lying art and the true science was recognized and fixed in words.
If any enchantress should come unto her, and make promise to draw down the moon from heaven, she would mock these women and laugh at their gross ignorance, who suffer themselves to be persuaded for to believe the same, as having learned somewhat in astrology.—Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, p. 324.
The astrologer is he that knoweth the course and motion of the heavens, and teacheth the same; which is a virtue if it pass not his bounds, and become of an astrologer an astronomer, who taketh upon him to give judgment and censure of these motions and courses of the heavens, what they prognosticate and destiny unto the creature.—Hooper, Early Writings, Parker Society’s Edition, p. 731.
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