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Page 9 - Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence, with a stilly sound. In such a place as this, at such an hour, If ancestry can be in aught believed, Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the world unknown.
Page 139 - You owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. [Witches vanish. Ban. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Page 19 - Now stand up, and name your text: and after it was read, she said, It is a long text. In the beginning of sermon, Mrs. Pope, a woman afflicted said to me, Now there is enough of that. And in the afternoon, Abigail Williams, upon my referring to my doctrine said to me, I know no doctrine you had, if you did name one, I have forgot it.
Page 124 - When he was upon the ladder, he made a speech for the clearing of his innocency, with such solemn and serious expressions as were to the admiration of all present. His prayer (which he concluded by repeating the Lord's prayer) was so well worded, and uttered with such (at least seeming) fervency of spirit as was very affecting, and drew tears from many, so that it seemed to some that the spectators would hinder the execution.
Page 90 - I question not but yourselves will see an alteration in these things. They say myself and others have " made a league with the devil." We cannot confess ; I know and the Lord...
Page 100 - I did to save my life and to have my liberty ; but the Lord, charging it to my conscience, made me in so much horror, that I could not contain myself before I had denied my confession, which I did, though I saw nothing but death before me, choosing rather death with a quiet conscience, than to live in such horror, which I could not suffer.
Page 132 - No, my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out they are another's. Their master.. Magistrate. Their Master: Who do you think is their Master? Martin. If they be dealing in the Black Art, you may know as well as I.
Page 125 - And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. 2 And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: ¿/ not thi) a brand plucked out of the fire?
Page 120 - Burroughs' two first wives, and that he had murdered them. And one of them told me that she was his first wife, and he stabbed her under the left arm and put a piece of sealing-wax on the wound. And she pulled aside the winding-sheet and showed me the place ; and also told me that she was in the house where Mr.
Page 78 - Here are five persons who have lately confessed themselves to be witches, and do accuse some of us, of being along with them at a sacrament, since we were committed into close prison, which we know to be lies.