NOTE. The numerous borders, tail-pieces, and ornaments used in the half-titles, illustrated headings, and at the end of chapters were chiefly designed, when not otherwise indicated in the above list, by L. S. IPSEN, S. L. SMITH, and LOUIS RITTER. HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. As Seleucus narrates, Hermes describes the principles that rank as wholes in two myriads of books; or, as we are informed by Manetho, he perfectly unfolded these principles in three myriads six thousand five hundred and twenty-five volumes. . . . . . . Our ancestors dedicated the inventions of their wisdom to this deity, inscribing all their own writings with the name of Hermes.-IAMBLICUS. |