The Works of Daniel Defoe...: The history of the life and surprising adventures of Mr. Duncan CampbellJenson Society, 1905 |
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according acquaintance answer APPARITION appeared Archibald Archibald Campbell beauty believe bell brought called Campbell's child Christallina concerning consult cure curiosity DANIEL DEFOE deaf and dumb death Defoe demon desire devil divine duke Duncan Campbell Earl Earl of Dumbarton endeavour entertaining evil eyes familiar spirits father foretold fortune friends genii genius give hand happened head hear instance Isle Isle of Skye kind knew lady Lapland Launceston learned likewise lived loadstone magicians maid manner married mind mysterious natural magic never night opinion Pacquet Paracelsus pass persons physician prediction pretend preter pretty prove reader reason relation reply Scotland second-sight seems seen seer sight Sir George Villiers Skye Socrates sort story strange Tasso tell Tertullian things thought tion told took vision wife witches woman wonderful words write wrote young
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Seite xxvii - And on sweet St Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers. Which an empty dream discovers.
Seite 71 - And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and tuned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other, that is not touched, being laid upon a table at a fit distance, will (like an echo to a trumpet) warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune ; yet many will not believe there is any such thing as a sympathy of souls : and I am well pleased, that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.
Seite xxv - I could not presently learn what the matter was ; at last a young man told me that they were looking for a coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their heads that night, and they should dream who would be their husbands. It was to be found that day and hour.
Seite 148 - The seer knows neither the object, time, nor place of a vision before it appears ; and the same object is often seen by different persons, living at a considerable distance from one another.
Seite 222 - ... whereby yet it is evident that, having no other idea or notion of matter, but something wherein those many sensible qualities which affect our senses do subsist; by supposing a substance wherein thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving...
Seite 56 - At the sight of a vision, the eyelids of the person are erected, and the eyes continue staring until the object vanish.
Seite 223 - ... from our not having any notion of the substance of spirit, we can no more conclude its non-existence than we can, for the same reason, deny the existence of body : it being as rational to affirm there is no body, because we have no clear and distinct idea of the substance of matter, as to say there is no spirit, because we have no clear and distinct idea of the substance of a spirit.
Seite 71 - Rest and sleep had not altered Mr. Donne's opinion the next day ; for he then affirmed this vision with a more deliberate and so confirmed a confidence that he inclined Sir Robert to a faint belief that the vision was true. It is truly said that desire and doubt have no rest, and it proved so with Sir Robert; for he immediately sent a servant to Drewry House, with a charge to hasten back and bring him word whether Mrs.
Seite 150 - When a novice, or one that has lately obtained the second sight, sees a vision in the night-time without doors, and comes near a fire, he presently falls into a swoon. " Some find themselves as it were in a crowd of people, having a corpse, which they carry along with them ; and after such visions the seers come in sweating, and describe the vision that appeared.
Seite 221 - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called accidents.