Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions: Or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes |
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... never appeared to me after the first dreadful day ; but several other figures shewed themselves afterwards very distinctly ; sometimes such as I knew , mostly , however , of per- sons I did not know , and amongst those known to me ...
... never appeared to me after the first dreadful day ; but several other figures shewed themselves afterwards very distinctly ; sometimes such as I knew , mostly , however , of per- sons I did not know , and amongst those known to me ...
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... never contained any thing disagreeable . Intelligent and respected friends often appeared to me , who endeavoured to console me in my grief , which still left deep traces on my mind . This speaking I heard most frequently when I was ...
... never contained any thing disagreeable . Intelligent and respected friends often appeared to me , who endeavoured to console me in my grief , which still left deep traces on my mind . This speaking I heard most frequently when I was ...
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... never been doubted , as every proper theory connected with a speculation of this kind must necessarily involve the successful investigation of certain primary laws of the human mind , by which our various states of mental feelings are ...
... never been doubted , as every proper theory connected with a speculation of this kind must necessarily involve the successful investigation of certain primary laws of the human mind , by which our various states of mental feelings are ...
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... never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold on our understand- ings , that they forget the story , and can only relate to our awakened souls a ...
... never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold on our understand- ings , that they forget the story , and can only relate to our awakened souls a ...
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... but of the very night - gown or morning - dress that the body , during life , might have worn ? The objection has never been fairly answered . CHAPTER VII THE NOTIONS ENTERTAINED THAT IDEAS , BY THEIR REGARDING APPARITIONS . 43.
... but of the very night - gown or morning - dress that the body , during life , might have worn ? The objection has never been fairly answered . CHAPTER VII THE NOTIONS ENTERTAINED THAT IDEAS , BY THEIR REGARDING APPARITIONS . 43.
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2d Stage actual impressions afterwards angels apparitions appeared arise astral spirits blood body brain catalepsy CHAPTER degree of vividness demonology demons devil divels dreams duergar ecstacy effect entertained explain external eyes faint Fancy fear figure frequently ghosts heard hierarchy of angels human imagination imparted induced ject kind Laplanders less vivid manner ment mental excitement mental feelings metaphysicians mind morbific causes narrative nature nerves ness night nitrous oxide notion object observed occasion opinion organs of sense painful feelings particular past feelings perfect sleep person phantasms phenomena philosophers pleasurable feelings present principle Rabbi Akkiva recollected images Reginald Scot remarks rendered renovated feelings retina says second sight seen sensations and ideas shew shewn sions somnambulism Soul spectral illusions spectral impressions spirits stage of excitement subsist superstition supposed TABULAR VIEW thing thou thought tion unconsciousness vanished various vision vivifying influence waking writer
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Page 49 - 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.
Page 143 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting...
Page 194 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
Page 272 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
Page 393 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 225 - ... imagined might happen by some accident in the candle. But lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord JESUS CHRIST upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed, as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this ef*fect, (for he was not confident as to the very words;) " Oh sinner, did I suffer this for thee,
Page 138 - Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but, in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their aery purposes, 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Page 213 - Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it : and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment, which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it.
Page 228 - Being thus doubtful in my chamber, one fair day in the summer, my casement being opened towards the south, the sun shining clear, and no wind stirring, I took my book, De Veritate...
Page 190 - And shake us with the vision that's gone by, The dread of vanish'd shadows — Are they so ? Is not the past all shadow ? What are they ? Creations of the mind ? — The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.