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" ... necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : an admirable... "
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by William Shakespeare - 1824
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The Fated Sky: Astrology in History

Benson Bobrick - 2006 - 385 pages
...drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedi182 * BENSON BOBRICK ence of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on....of whoremaster man to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star. In proof, he offers himself as an example: "My father compounded with my mother...
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Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours

Noga Arikha - 2007 - 412 pages
...predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on:...major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. 'Sfoot! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.67...
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