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We find it advertised in Mercurius Politicus, 19th January, 1654: "Parthenissa, that most famous romance composed by the Lord Broghill, and dedicated to the Lady Northumberland."
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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It is uncertain whether there was a Roman Mercurius of earlier origin, or whether the name Mercurius (_i. e._ concerned in trade) was a new invention to avoid using the Greek name, as in the case of the trias Ceres, Liber, Libera.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Principles_ as follows: "For a taste of the Spirit of prophecy which the author [Boehme] had, there is a little treatise of some prophecies concerning these latter times, collected out of his writings by a lover of the Teutonic philosophy and entitled Mercurius Teutonicus."
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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"Mercurius" comprised 85 law enforcers and was aimed at fighting illicit weapons trade and illegal immigrants.
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Van Damme said the aim of the operation, called "Mercurius", was to heighten visible policing as set out in the police plan announced by commissioner George Fivaz last week.
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Nothing in Burckhardt, Eliade, my four alchemical dictionaries, and the pile of picture books and histories linked the Green Lion with anything but philosophical Mercury ( 'Mercurius').
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Carthage no less than two hundred and eighty stades (now it so happened that a temple of Hermes had been there from of old, from which fact the place was named Mercurium; for the Romans call Hermes "Mercurius"), and if he had not purposely played the coward and hesitated, but had undertaken to go straight for Carthage, he would have captured it at the first onset, and he would have reduced the Vandals to subjection without their even thinking of resistance; so overcome was Gizeric with awe of
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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One programme focuses on an English civil war newspaper, Mercurius Aulicus, produced on the eve of battle by Royalists as a way of unsettling their opponents.
Melvyn Bragg bounces back with feast of radio and TV shows 2012
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Ongoing: "Infinity," "Mercurius Duplex" and works by Susan MacWilliam A large-scale sculpture installation by John Kirchner, John Stark's oil paintings on wood and MacWilliam's latest video works.
A sampling from area museum exhibits Post 2010
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CONNER "Infinity," "Mercurius Duplex" and works by Susan MacWilliam, through Oct. 23.
Museums Post 2010
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