On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions: With an Account of MesmerismWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 248 sider |
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... turn availed themselves , to indicate their laws , and to develop their theory . The subject is so important that I might well have approached it in a severer guise . But , slight as this performance may appear , I profess to have ...
... turn availed themselves , to indicate their laws , and to develop their theory . The subject is so important that I might well have approached it in a severer guise . But , slight as this performance may appear , I profess to have ...
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... turn of mind , fully endowed with the national allowance of shrewdness and caution . I saw a good deal of him ; and one day , by chance , this subject of the divining rod was mentioned . He told me , that at one time his curiosity ...
... turn of mind , fully endowed with the national allowance of shrewdness and caution . I saw a good deal of him ; and one day , by chance , this subject of the divining rod was mentioned . He told me , that at one time his curiosity ...
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... turn to the learned pages of Horst for a luminous and precise definition of the des- tructive and mysterious beings whose existence you have ventured to consider problematical . " A Vampyr is a dead body which continues to live in the ...
... turn to the learned pages of Horst for a luminous and precise definition of the des- tructive and mysterious beings whose existence you have ventured to consider problematical . " A Vampyr is a dead body which continues to live in the ...
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... turning it straight , " Ha ! ha ! " said he , pointing to fresh blood upon the lips- " Ha ! ha ! What ! Your mouth not wiped since last night's work ? " The spectators shuddered ; the drummer - boy sank forward , fainting , and upset ...
... turning it straight , " Ha ! ha ! " said he , pointing to fresh blood upon the lips- " Ha ! ha ! What ! Your mouth not wiped since last night's work ? " The spectators shuddered ; the drummer - boy sank forward , fainting , and upset ...
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... turns out to be an unfortunate gentleman ( or lady ) whom his friends had buried under a mistake while he was still alive , and who , if they afterwards mercifully let him alone , died sooner or later either naturally or of the ...
... turns out to be an unfortunate gentleman ( or lady ) whom his friends had buried under a mistake while he was still alive , and who , if they afterwards mercifully let him alone , died sooner or later either naturally or of the ...
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Side 83 - Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Side 14 - The Moor and the Loch. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Corrie, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN.
Side 83 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. Allowing him a breath, a little scene. To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit.
Side 1 - Every step in Scotland Is historical; the shades of the dead arise on every side; the very rocks breathe. Miss Strickland's talents as a writer, and turn of mind as an individual, in a peculiar manner fit her for painting a historical gallery of the most illustrious or dignified female characters in that land of chivalry and song."— Mtackwwid'e Mayasiite.
Side 129 - He must necessarily go as he was stimulated, whether with a violent dash on the ground and bounce from place to place like a foot-ball, or hop round with head, limbs and trunk, twitching and jolting in every direction, as if they must inevitably fly asunder.
Side 128 - The rolling exercise consisted in being cast down in a violent manner, doubled with the head and feet together, or stretched in a prostrate manner, turning swiftly over like a dog. Nothing in nature could better represent the jerks, than for one to goad another alternately on every side with a piece of red-hot iron. The exercise commonly began in the head, which would fly backwards and forwards, and from side to side, with a quick jolt, which the person would naturally labor to suppress, but in vain.
Side 21 - The best book I have ever met with." — Professor Johnston. " We have thoroughly examined these volumes ; but to give a full notice of their varied and valuabla contents would occupy a larger space than we can conveniently devote to their discussion ; we therefore, in general terms, commend them to the careful study of every young man who wishes to become a good practical farmer."— Times.
Side 7 - We do not remember any recent author whose poetry is so unmixedly native ; and this English complexion constitutes one of its characteristic charms. No purer model of our genuine home feeling and language."— Quarterly Review.
Side 74 - I suppose it manifested, are of too trivial a nature to justify so novel a hypothesis. My answer is, the cases are few and trivial only because the subject has not been attended to. For how many centuries were the laws of electricity preindicated by the single fact that a piece of amber, •when rubbed, would attract light bodies ! Again, the school of physiological materialists will of course be opposed to it.
Side 17 - A new truth has to encounter three normal stages of opposition. In the first, it is denounced as an imposture. In the second, that is, when it is beginning to force itself into notice, it is cursorily examined and plausibly explained away. In the third, or "cui bono" stage, it is decried as useless, and hostile to religion.