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magician in Australian fairy tales

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1897
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magician in Australian fairy tales

furniture and bare walls, vanish altogether from my outward senses. It is late. On this long winter night I have been deep into the pages of the famous astronomer, Newton; and although I have laid down the book before me on the table, my mind is still busy at the threshold of the mysterious realm o…

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2,387
Year
1,897
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Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
2387
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Australian fairy tales; Atha Westbury
Published
1897
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
magician
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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furniture and bare walls, vanish altogether from my outward senses. It is late. On this long winter night I have been deep into the pages of the famous astronomer, Newton; and although I have laid down the book before me on the table, my mind is still busy at the threshold of the mysterious realm of Nature, to which I have been introduced by the wand of the magician. If knowledge is power, it sometimes happens that the power does not bring happiness in its train, but often assumes strange shapes. As I sat and looked with vacant eyes at what, for the moment, I saw not, behold the table before me became gradually luminous. At first.

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