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1'12 BPIBITVAL SCIENTIST.
ence. Noturo1ly POSSlllsell of mora tbllD ordlnnry
ment.cl po\7erB, nod industriously applying
himself to stndy during the yC:>n! of
bls youth, he Iliternnrd be~o.me distinguished
(or leMIlin!;, I1IId for ,bla skill In thG proctlce
of medicine. But loaing his wife nt no early
nge, and In _Bin esSaying to dlsolp:lte bls
grief by t.rovel, nod bdng. moreover, "nnoyed
by the perelBtent nolmOlllty of proCe3Slonni
rlvWs, be retired into solltude, nod Iliternnrd
"eve loped !.be Bileged propbetlc faculty wbich
bas glveu blm bis historlCIII distinction. lIe
wrote hie predictions in obscure vene, and
colleet.ed and publlsbed tbem In the year
16M>, UDder the Utle of "]'ropheUc Centurles;"
and the subsequent fulllllmen t o( BOlne
\hem mnde blm the centre of attraCtion to
many illustrIous pe';'onagea.' This book of
Nostradamus afterWard rell Into obscurity;
but was regarded with much interest by cer:­
tain minds during lobe fore part of the pres7
ent centurY, and by Napoleon blmself aDlOng
the Dumber, on account of its evident for&.
ahadowlng of evenl~ tben transpiring. In
1840, It was republished by Mone. Baresti',
The following translatioD is of that portion
ollbe propbecies wbich is J'eIllU'ded as relat·
log to the events of l