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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... wonderful that such an age as the last could produce such a book as " Butler's Analogy . " His is a method of argument , which , till tried , must have been thought of very slight weight ; but , once made proof of , —and proved by such ...
... wonderful that such an age as the last could produce such a book as " Butler's Analogy . " His is a method of argument , which , till tried , must have been thought of very slight weight ; but , once made proof of , —and proved by such ...
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... wonderfully set forth in nature -and the difference of the manifestations of these two mysteries is in itself most striking . Things , as considered in their essence , present the former ; things as presenting themselves , and taken in ...
... wonderfully set forth in nature -and the difference of the manifestations of these two mysteries is in itself most striking . Things , as considered in their essence , present the former ; things as presenting themselves , and taken in ...
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... wonderful , " answered I , " that the sign of the Cross impressed on the leaves of a plant should proclaim to man that it will not hurt him ? Is it not as if there went forth such virtue out of the bare form , that no evil thing had ...
... wonderful , " answered I , " that the sign of the Cross impressed on the leaves of a plant should proclaim to man that it will not hurt him ? Is it not as if there went forth such virtue out of the bare form , that no evil thing had ...
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... for the physical ; the wonderful phenomena of light and shade ; the extraordinary sounds which are familiar to moun- tain ears ; the opening out of a new kind of land- scape , fantastical beyond the wildest valleys of earth - III.
... for the physical ; the wonderful phenomena of light and shade ; the extraordinary sounds which are familiar to moun- tain ears ; the opening out of a new kind of land- scape , fantastical beyond the wildest valleys of earth - III.
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... in a heavy gale . When we had accom- plished half the distance , we sat down to rest , and gaze at the wonderful chasms which opened below us . Seeing a small crack in the earth , - I looked down into that , and lo ! 32 NIGHT III .
... in a heavy gale . When we had accom- plished half the distance , we sat down to rest , and gaze at the wonderful chasms which opened below us . Seeing a small crack in the earth , - I looked down into that , and lo ! 32 NIGHT III .
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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.