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... sleep , while the operations of judgment are suspended , the imagina- tion is busily employed in forming a story , to account for the appearance , whether agreeable or distressing . Then the author enjoys the delight of perusing works ...
... sleep , while the operations of judgment are suspended , the imagina- tion is busily employed in forming a story , to account for the appearance , whether agreeable or distressing . Then the author enjoys the delight of perusing works ...
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... sleep which lasted about half an hour ; the physician ascribed " the apparition to a violent mental emo- 66 tion , and hoped that there would be no " return , but the violent agitation of my " mind had in some way disordered my 616 66 ...
... sleep which lasted about half an hour ; the physician ascribed " the apparition to a violent mental emo- 66 tion , and hoped that there would be no " return , but the violent agitation of my " mind had in some way disordered my 616 66 ...
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... sleeping potion was brought me , but I set it by , being very desirous and inclined " to sleep without it . The fourth night " I could hardly forbear sleeping , but " the spirit , lying on the bed by me , told me again , I should be ...
... sleeping potion was brought me , but I set it by , being very desirous and inclined " to sleep without it . The fourth night " I could hardly forbear sleeping , but " the spirit , lying on the bed by me , told me again , I should be ...
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... sleeping longer , and acquaint you " with it , and now stand in defiance of " them ; and thus I exerted myself about " them ; and notwithstanding their con- " tinued threats , I slept very well the " next night , and continued so to do ...
... sleeping longer , and acquaint you " with it , and now stand in defiance of " them ; and thus I exerted myself about " them ; and notwithstanding their con- " tinued threats , I slept very well the " next night , and continued so to do ...
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... sleep , and though he had " had many disturbances in his own " room , and understood of others in the " house , yet he acknowledged he had never been so terrified , during many 66 years abode there . The next day at 带 ( 6 " dinner he ...
... sleep , and though he had " had many disturbances in his own " room , and understood of others in the " house , yet he acknowledged he had never been so terrified , during many 66 years abode there . The next day at 带 ( 6 " dinner he ...
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66 appeared Achtermaunshohe affrighted afterwards albæ appa Arise Evans Armagh attended Baronius Beaumont's beheld Bezuel blood body Broken Caen called Cardan castle chamber Charles VII clouds coloured curious demons deposeth Desfontaines door dreadful drowned extraordinary eyes Ficinus figures forms frequently ghosts Guion hand Harz Harz mountains head heard horrible horror imagination incubis inquit insanity instance instar Jurat length light looked ments Mercato mind modum morning mountains nature never night nihil noise o'clock objects observed occasion Pancrates perceived persons phantasms pheno physician Pordage Portnedown Bridge produced qu'elle quæ Quarrè reader recollected images repeated rition Saumur Scotland second-sighted seemed seen Seers servants shew sion sleep sometimes Sortoville spectral delusions spectral impressions spectre spirit or vision supernatural Susannah Martin tasms terror THEORY OF APPARITIONS tion told unto vanished voice walked WARRINGTON window witchcraft YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 13 - Achtcrmannshohe, a human figure of a monstrous size. A violent gust of wind having almost carried away my hat, I clapped my hand to it by moving my arm towards my head, and the colossal figure did the same.
Page 14 - ... compliments by bending their bodies as we did; after which they vanished. We retained our position, kept our eyes fixed on the same spot, and in a little time the two figures again stood before us, and were joined by a third. Every movement that we made by bending our bodies, these figures imitated, but with this difference, that the phenomenon was sometimes weak and faint, sometimes strong and well defined.
Page 39 - I opened my eyes. I conversed sometimes with my physician and my wife of the phantasms which at the moment surrounded me ; they appeared more frequently walking than at rest, nor were they constantly present. They frequently did not come for some time, but always reappeared for a longer or shorter period, either singly or in company, the latter, however, being most frequently the case.
Page 41 - ... short, and never of an unpleasant turn. At different times there appeared to me both dear and sensible friends of both sexes, whose addresses tended to appease my grief, which had not yet wholly subsided : their consolatory speeches were in general addressed to me when I was alone. Sometimes, however, I was accosted by these consoling friends while I was engaged in company, and not unfrequently while real persons were speaking to me.
Page 46 - Camden, he saw in a vision his eldest son (then a child and at London) appear unto him with the Mark of a bloody cross on his forehead as if it had been cutted with a sword...
Page 36 - I might preserve a clear consciousness of the changes which should take place within myself; I observed these phantasms very closely, and frequently reflected on my antecedent thoughts to discover, if possible, by means of what association of ideas exactly these forms presented themselves to my imagination. I thought at times I had found a clue, but taking the whole together, I could not make out any natural...
Page 22 - ... at him, and very much hurt him, with a blow on the side of the head: and that on the same day, about noon, the same shape walked in the room where he was, and an apple strangely flew out of his hand, into the lap of his mother, six or eight foot from him.