The Unseen World: Communications with It, Real Or Imaginary, Including Apparitions, Warnings, Haunted Places, Prophecies, Aerial Visions, Astrology, EtcJ. Burns, 1847 - 216 páginas |
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Página 98
... fancy , go , on a stormy , gusty night , and sit down on the leeward side of the embankment of some railway where the electric telegraph is used . The various sounds that the gale expresses from that great Æolian harp are almost ...
... fancy , go , on a stormy , gusty night , and sit down on the leeward side of the embankment of some railway where the electric telegraph is used . The various sounds that the gale expresses from that great Æolian harp are almost ...
Página 111
... fancy . SOPHRON . And taking place , too , in day light , is another thing in its favour . But one thing that strikes me as remarkable in all these stories , is this , you cannot form any idea whether the apparition is in happiness or ...
... fancy . SOPHRON . And taking place , too , in day light , is another thing in its favour . But one thing that strikes me as remarkable in all these stories , is this , you cannot form any idea whether the apparition is in happiness or ...
Página 119
... supposed to work there , and to be great imitators of man . Now we cannot wonder that , in those hours of fearful solitude and darkness , the fancy should invent almost any kind of delu- sion OF PLACES SUPPOSED TO BE HAUNTED . 119.
... supposed to work there , and to be great imitators of man . Now we cannot wonder that , in those hours of fearful solitude and darkness , the fancy should invent almost any kind of delu- sion OF PLACES SUPPOSED TO BE HAUNTED . 119.
Página 120
... fancy should invent almost any kind of delu- sion ; especially where there are so many un- earthly noises the dripping of water down the shafts , the tunnelling of distant passages , the rumbling of trams from some freshly explored lode ...
... fancy should invent almost any kind of delu- sion ; especially where there are so many un- earthly noises the dripping of water down the shafts , the tunnelling of distant passages , the rumbling of trams from some freshly explored lode ...
Página 123
... fancy it . " Very well , " said the visitor ; " then I will tell you all about it to - morrow morning . " The young man accordingly went to his room ; bolted and locked the door ; looked under the bed , under the drawers , into the ...
... fancy it . " Very well , " said the visitor ; " then I will tell you all about it to - morrow morning . " The young man accordingly went to his room ; bolted and locked the door ; looked under the bed , under the drawers , into the ...
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Página 39 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Página 130 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 55 - And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun •was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars ; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Página 55 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood...
Página 28 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 137 - I spake again, and it answered, in a voice neither very audible nor intelligible. I was not in the least terrified, and therefore persisted until it spake again, and gave me satisfaction. But the work could not be finished at this time ; wherefore the same evening, an hour after sunset, it met me again near the same place, and after a few words on each side, it quietly vanished, and neither doth appear since, nor ever will more to any man's disturbance.
Página 168 - ... saw the figure lying across him in the same position. To add to the wonder, on putting his hand forth to touch this form, he found the uniform, in which it appeared to be dressed, dripping wet. On the entrance of one of his brother officers, to whom he called out in alarm, the apparition vanished ; but in a few months after he received the startling intelligence that on that night his brother had been drowned in the Indian seas. Of the supernatural character of this appearance, Captain Kidd himself...
Página 136 - I dare aver, that the swiftest horse in England could not have conveyed himself out of sight in that short space of time. Two things I observed in this day's appearance.
Página 55 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Página 159 - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.