The Unseen World: Communications with It, Real Or Imaginary, Including Apparitions, Warnings, Haunted Places, Prophecies, Aerial Visions, Astrology, EtcJ. Burns, 1847 - 216 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... speaking nor hearing ? Again : it has passed into a pro- verb , that if a totally unexpected visiter arrives , those to whom he presents himself have been at that moment talking of him . And so , if two friends are in conversation on a ...
... speaking nor hearing ? Again : it has passed into a pro- verb , that if a totally unexpected visiter arrives , those to whom he presents himself have been at that moment talking of him . And so , if two friends are in conversation on a ...
Pagina 8
... speaking , it cannot be said to involve any thing supernatural : but still it is a branch , as coming quite within that communion of the two worlds on which we have been dwell- ing . From this we shall proceed to consider those ...
... speaking , it cannot be said to involve any thing supernatural : but still it is a branch , as coming quite within that communion of the two worlds on which we have been dwell- ing . From this we shall proceed to consider those ...
Pagina 17
... speak , of triplicity ; and so even heathens seem to have felt , and to have shaped their myths accordingly . SOPHRON . Why , it even descended to a proverb , -Every three is perfect . The better nature con- sists of three , says ...
... speak , of triplicity ; and so even heathens seem to have felt , and to have shaped their myths accordingly . SOPHRON . Why , it even descended to a proverb , -Every three is perfect . The better nature con- sists of three , says ...
Pagina 31
... speak from my own experience ) there are cases where the looking up makes bad worse . If a precipice towers above you on one side , while it yawns beneath you on the other , the additional height does but distress you the more ; and if ...
... speak from my own experience ) there are cases where the looking up makes bad worse . If a precipice towers above you on one side , while it yawns beneath you on the other , the additional height does but distress you the more ; and if ...
Pagina 35
... speak . True ; there is a brighter side to the pic- ture . Angels may delight in solitudes unstained by sin ; and peaks like those of Chimboraço and Himalaya may be , could we only hear it , vocal with the songs of the just made perfect ...
... speak . True ; there is a brighter side to the pic- ture . Angels may delight in solitudes unstained by sin ; and peaks like those of Chimboraço and Himalaya may be , could we only hear it , vocal with the songs of the just made perfect ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 28 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.