Footfalls on the boundary of another world. From the 10th Amer. ed., with emendations and additions by the author1875 |
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Abercrombie adduced admit afterwards agency Ahrensburg alleged Animal Magnetism apparition appearance attention authenticated believe Bodmin brother called Captain cause character Cideville circumstances clairvoyance connection dæmon daughter David Fox death disturbances door doubt dream evidence example existence experience extraordinary fact father gentleman Hahn hallucination happened heard human Hydesville imagine impression inquiry Jansenist Joseph Glanvil knockings lady laws letter living London Loudun mind miracle Mompesson morning mother murdered mysterious Naples narrated narrative nature neighbours never night noises Norway o'clock Oberstenfeld observed occurred Oesel opinion Paris parsonage particular passed persons phenomena phenomenon Pneumatology present question reality reason regard remained remarkable replied residing Sadducismus Triumphatus Samuel Wesley says scepticism seemed seen senses sister sleep somnambulism sound spirit story supposed testimony things thought tion told truth ultra-mundane usually Vauvert Wadebridge Wesley wife witnesses Wynyard Yerville
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Страница 44 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Страница 22 - He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Страница 95 - OUR bugles sang truce ; for the nightcloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.
Страница 45 - A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.
Страница 12 - I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless...
Страница 53 - But what is more extraordinary; many of the miracles were immediately proved upon the spot, before judges of unquestioned integrity, attested by witnesses of credit and distinction, in a learned age, and on the most eminent theatre that is now in the world.
Страница 11 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God...
Страница 114 - ... for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his defence. The period was now near at hand when he conceived the loss of his lawsuit to be inevitable, and he had formed his determination to ride to Edinburgh next day, and make the best bargain he could in the way of compromise.
Страница 9 - WHY come not spirits from the realms of glory, To visit earth as in the days of old, — The times of sacred writ and ancient story ? Is heaven more distant ? or has earth grown cold?
Страница 166 - A whole month was sufficient to convince anybody of the reality of the thing, and to try all ways of discovering any trick, had it been possible for any such to have been used. I shall only tell you what I myself heard, and leave the rest to others. " My sisters in the paper chamber had heard noises, and told me of them ; but...