Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft: Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq |
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... COURSE OF REPUBLICATION , THE THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY . THIS PUBLICATION WILL BE COMPRISED IN A LIMITED NUMBER OF VOLUMES , AND IS INTENDED TO FORM , WHEN COMPLETED , A DIGESTED SYSTEM OF RELIGIOUS AND ECCLESIASTICAL KNOWLEDGE . THE FIRST ...
... COURSE OF REPUBLICATION , THE THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY . THIS PUBLICATION WILL BE COMPRISED IN A LIMITED NUMBER OF VOLUMES , AND IS INTENDED TO FORM , WHEN COMPLETED , A DIGESTED SYSTEM OF RELIGIOUS AND ECCLESIASTICAL KNOWLEDGE . THE FIRST ...
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... Course adopted , supposing that , as in the Case of Balak , the Almighty had , by exertion of his Will , substituted Samuel , or a good Spirit in his Character , for the Deception which the Witch intended to produce - Resumption of the ...
... Course adopted , supposing that , as in the Case of Balak , the Almighty had , by exertion of his Will , substituted Samuel , or a good Spirit in his Character , for the Deception which the Witch intended to produce - Resumption of the ...
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... course of one of those lively dreams , in which the patient , except in respect to the single subject of one strong impression , is , or seems , sensible of the real particulars of the scene around him , a state of slumber which often ...
... course of one of those lively dreams , in which the patient , except in respect to the single subject of one strong impression , is , or seems , sensible of the real particulars of the scene around him , a state of slumber which often ...
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... courses and a dessert ; and yet , somehow or other , every thing he eat tasted of porridge . " This dilemma could be no great wonder to the friend to whom the poor patient communicated it , who knew the lunatic eat nothing but this ...
... courses and a dessert ; and yet , somehow or other , every thing he eat tasted of porridge . " This dilemma could be no great wonder to the friend to whom the poor patient communicated it , who knew the lunatic eat nothing but this ...
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... course of life . He therefore prescribed a gentle course of medicine , but earnestly recommended to his patient to retire to his own house in the country , observe a temperate diet and early hours , practising regular exercise , on the ...
... course of life . He therefore prescribed a gentle course of medicine , but earnestly recommended to his patient to retire to his own house in the country , observe a temperate diet and early hours , practising regular exercise , on the ...
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Page 62 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 62 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 62 - In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power...
Page 52 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 149 - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
Page 148 - FAREWELL rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness, Finds sixpence in her shoe ? Lament, lament, old abbeys, The fairies lost command ; They did but change priests...
Page 149 - Churne of Staffordshire Give laud and praises due, Who every meal can mend your cheer With tales both old and true : To William all give audience, And pray ye for his noddle, For all the fairies' evidence Were lost, if it were addle.
Page 117 - Lucken-hare, as the place where, at twelve o'clock at night, he should receive the price. He came, his money was paid in ancient coin, and he was invited by his customer to view his residence. The trader in horses followed his guide in the deepest astonishment through several long ranges of stalls, in each of which a horse stood motionless, while an armed warrior lay equally still at the charger's feet. ' All these men," said the wizard in a whisper, ' will awaken at the battle of Sheriffmuir.
Page 42 - The mountain's height, and all the ridges round, Yet not one trace of living wight discerns, Nor knows, o'erawed, and trembling as he stands, To what, or whom, he owes his idle fear, To ghost, to witch, to fairy, or to fiend; But wonders, and no end of wondering finds.
Page 149 - Their dances were procession. But now, alas ! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas, Or farther for religion fled, Or else they take their ease.