Footfalls on the Boundary of Another WorldJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860 - 528 Seiten |
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Abercrombie actual adduced admit afterward agency Ahrensburg alleged Animal Magnetism apparition appeared argument awake believe Bodmin called Captain catalepsy cause chance character circumstances clairvoyance communicated connection dæmon death disturbances doubt dream evidence example existence experience extraordinary eyes fact father gentleman hallucination happened heard human Hydesville hypothesis imagine impression inquiry invisible agent Jansenists Jean-Sylvain Bailly knockings lady laws letter living London Loudun mediumship mind miracle morning mother murder Naples narrated narrative nature never night noises Norway o'clock observed occurred opinion Paris passed persons phenomena phenomenon pneumatology present proof prove question racter reality reason received regard remarkable replied residing Sadducismus Triumphatus says seemed seen senses skepticism sleep somnambulism speak spirit story suppose teinds testimony theory thing thought tion told touching true truth ultramundane usually Vauvert Wadebridge William Howitt witnesses words
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Seite 72 - A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.
Seite 28 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Seite 29 - At the same time I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.
Seite 59 - At length, however, Columbus, wearied out by this painful procrastination, pressed the court for a definite answer to his propositions; when he was informed that the council of Salamanca pronounced his scheme to be "vain, impracticable, and resting on grounds too weak to merit the support of the government.
Seite 137 - God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Seite 29 - I merely mean to say what Johnson said. That in the course of some six thousand years, All nations have believed that from the dead A visitant at intervals appears ; And what is strangest upon this strange head, Is, that whatever bar the reason rears 'Gainst such belief, there's something stronger still In its behalf, let those deny who will.
Seite 165 - Mr R d of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the vale of Gala, was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of teind (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family, the titulars (lay impropriators of the tithes...
Seite 83 - But what is more extraordinary; many of the miracles were immediately proved upon the spot, before judges of unquestioned integrity, attested by witnesses of credit and distinction, in a learned age, and on the most eminent theatre that is now in the world.
Seite 148 - ... education of the child; and she was by her very well educated till she was marriageable; and a match was concluded for her with Sir William Perkins, but was then prevented in an extraordinary manner. Upon a Thursday night, she thinking she saw a light in her chamber after she was in bed, knocked for her maid, who presently came to her; and she asked why she left a candle burning in her chamber ? The maid said she left none, and there was none, but what she brought with her at that time.
Seite 29 - I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth; those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single...