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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... once , and now the blest ! " PISTUS . A very pretty fable , and most true in its antitype . In a thousand ways , clogged and shackled though it be by its mate , the mind will assert its native powers , and will communicate without the ...
... once , and now the blest ! " PISTUS . A very pretty fable , and most true in its antitype . In a thousand ways , clogged and shackled though it be by its mate , the mind will assert its native powers , and will communicate without the ...
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... once made proof of , —and proved by such a hand , it possesses a force per- fectly overwhelming and crushing . He , of course , did not exhaust it ; nay , he probably did not carry it on so far as he would have done in a more believing ...
... once made proof of , —and proved by such a hand , it possesses a force per- fectly overwhelming and crushing . He , of course , did not exhaust it ; nay , he probably did not carry it on so far as he would have done in a more believing ...
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... once in walking from Queenborough to Sheerness . It is a low marshy tract of country ; and on that day a haze hung over the landscape , and seemed completely to blot out every feature of interest that the scene might otherwise have ...
... once in walking from Queenborough to Sheerness . It is a low marshy tract of country ; and on that day a haze hung over the landscape , and seemed completely to blot out every feature of interest that the scene might otherwise have ...
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... once , in an African mountain , that jutted out into the calm tropical sea , I was wandering on with a friend in the heat of the day , and exploring the various crags and ravines by which it descended to the shore . There was a burning ...
... once , in an African mountain , that jutted out into the calm tropical sea , I was wandering on with a friend in the heat of the day , and exploring the various crags and ravines by which it descended to the shore . There was a burning ...
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... once . I had a mind to try if the Pico do Cidrão , one of the loftiest and , at the same time , steepest mountains of Madeira , could not be scaled from the Pico dos Arrieiros . It was a fine day in spring : we tethered our horses on ...
... once . I had a mind to try if the Pico do Cidrão , one of the loftiest and , at the same time , steepest mountains of Madeira , could not be scaled from the Pico dos Arrieiros . It was a fine day in spring : we tethered our horses on ...
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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.