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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... mean , when the west has lost its more gaudy hues , and the only trace of the departed sun is the calm still belt of green that reposes above the distant hills , as if they were the barriers of this world , and that quiet ocean of light ...
... mean , when the west has lost its more gaudy hues , and the only trace of the departed sun is the calm still belt of green that reposes above the distant hills , as if they were the barriers of this world , and that quiet ocean of light ...
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... mean , where the head of a house is asserted to receive inti- mation of the approaching decease of any mem- ber of it by a known signal , which is perfectly intelligible to himself . Dreams will naturally next occupy our attention : and ...
... mean , where the head of a house is asserted to receive inti- mation of the approaching decease of any mem- ber of it by a known signal , which is perfectly intelligible to himself . Dreams will naturally next occupy our attention : and ...
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... means only we can attain those bright worlds of which the western sky is a type and a promise . EUSEBIA . And it is strange that the very means of procuring earthly food should be in the figure of that which has procured us all our ...
... means only we can attain those bright worlds of which the western sky is a type and a promise . EUSEBIA . And it is strange that the very means of procuring earthly food should be in the figure of that which has procured us all our ...
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... mean cloud scenery ; the hours of intense stillness ; the clearness and brightness of the at- mosphere ; the lightness of the air ; the necessity of observing those little signs of approaching tempest which a common eye and ear would ...
... mean cloud scenery ; the hours of intense stillness ; the clearness and brightness of the at- mosphere ; the lightness of the air ; the necessity of observing those little signs of approaching tempest which a common eye and ear would ...
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... means to bring them round , and I am riding to for the surgeon . " With which he struck spurs into his horse , and galloped on . And as my friend was accustomed , very justly , to observe , not the least wonderful part of the story is ...
... means to bring them round , and I am riding to for the surgeon . " With which he struck spurs into his horse , and galloped on . And as my friend was accustomed , very justly , to observe , not the least wonderful part of the story is ...
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afterwards angels answer apparition appeared argument astrology believe brother Caernarvonshire Caiaphas called Captain Barnaby Chester-le-street church comet connexion course Cross cruciferous plant curious dead death died disbelieve door dream earth EUSEBIA event evil spirits fancy foretold gentleman ghost haunted hear heard heaven Holy horse husband imagine Imola inquiry instance ISAAC MILNER Julius Cæsar kind knock lady light look Lord F manner ment mind morning mountains nature never night noise occurred Orrery Parker passed perhaps person PISTUS Plutarch prediction pupa remarkable replied Ruddle SCEPT second sight seems seen sent servant shortly side singular Sir George Villiers sometimes SOPHRON soul speak spectre spot stairs story strange supernatural supposed tale Tamois tell THEODORA thing thought tion to-morrow told useless voice warning whole wife witchcraft wonderful young
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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.