Strange Visitors: A Series of Original Papers, Embracing Philosophy, Science, Government... By the Spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray ... and Others Now Dwelling in the Spirit World

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Henry J. Horn
W. White, 1871 - 241 pagina's

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Pagina 227 - I come on? how then? can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? He that died o
Pagina 135 - THERE was an old woman, as I've heard tell, She went to market her eggs for to sell ; She went to market all on a market day.
Pagina 191 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work ; but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God...
Pagina 227 - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o
Pagina 133 - Dead ! dead ! You call her dead ! Oh, speak not thus ! her tender heart you grieve, And 'twixt her love and yours a barrier weave ! Call her by sweetest name, your voice she'll hear, And through the darkness like a star appear. Dead ! dead ! You call her dead ! Lift up your eyes ! she is no longer dead ! In your lone path the unseen angels tread ! And when your weary night of earth shall close, She'll lead you where eternal summer blows.
Pagina 162 - This is delicious," said I to Penn. " Do tell us to what fairy prince this magnificent land belongs ! " " We will show you the fairy prince himself, very soon," said he. "Do you see the tip of his -castle yonder?" I looked, and as we moved swiftly in the direction indicated an unexpected spectacle loomed in sight. It was a building so delicate and perfect in its structure that it appeared like a vision. Pillars and arches, dome and architrave, were wrought in a style exquisitely beautiful ; the material...
Pagina ii - Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by GEORGE W. CARLETON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Pagina 172 - ... Theodore Parker and Hawthorne both reside in this city. Parker, as I have been told, when he first came here, decided to devote himself to the cultivation of land; but he has drifted again into the rostrum, and twice a week you may see the fair maidens and gallant swains of Spring Garden wending their way to his beautiful little home and garden in the suburbs, where, amid the flowers, he descants to them, in his eloquent way, on life and the attributes of the human soul, and also upon his earth...
Pagina 29 - KETTTKNING one evening from a visit to a friend on earth, I was impelled to take a route with which I was unfamiliar. It led me far beyond the habitations of the city, into an open country whose surface was diversified by sloping hills and broad valleys. The sun was quite low in the horizon, and dark purple clouds, gathering in the west, indicated an approaching storm. Anxious to reach my spirit-home before such an event, I was nevertheless compelled to keep within the earth's atmosphere. The aspect...
Pagina 206 - The spirit world is all voice. Never have I heard notes clearer, louder, deeper, than resound through the electric air that surrounds my home. The gift of speaking, and of representing individualities separate from your own identity, is a spiritual gift decidedly; and with us theatres and amphitheatres are as numerous as churches are with you. I will leave the description of these structures for the ready pen and speech of our friend Burton. JOHN WESLEY. 'THE DIVISION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, INTO...

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