Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed: Being a Collection of Entertaining Stories Founded on Fact; and Selected for the Purpose of Eradicating Those Ridiculous Fears, which the Ignorant, the Weak, and the Superstitious, are But Too Apt to Encourage, for Want of Properly Examining Into the Causes of Such Absurd ImpositionsMacdonald and Son, 1814 - 223 pages |
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... natural effect but on some important occasion . Therefore , my intention is only to laugh a ridi- culous fear out of the world , by shewing on what absurd absurd and improbable foundations the common nature of ghosts and 14 ESSAY ON GHOSTS.
... natural effect but on some important occasion . Therefore , my intention is only to laugh a ridi- culous fear out of the world , by shewing on what absurd absurd and improbable foundations the common nature of ghosts and 14 ESSAY ON GHOSTS.
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... nature of ghosts and apparitions are built . In the country , there are generally allowed to be two sorts of ghosts ; -the vulgar ghost , and the ghost of dignity . The latter is always the spirit of some Lord of the Manor , or Justice ...
... nature of ghosts and apparitions are built . In the country , there are generally allowed to be two sorts of ghosts ; -the vulgar ghost , and the ghost of dignity . The latter is always the spirit of some Lord of the Manor , or Justice ...
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... nature , that we cannot resist inserting that inimitable production in his own words . " Going to dine , " says he , " with an old ac- quaintance , I had the misfortune to find his whole family very much dejected . Upon asking him the ...
... nature , that we cannot resist inserting that inimitable production in his own words . " Going to dine , " says he , " with an old ac- quaintance , I had the misfortune to find his whole family very much dejected . Upon asking him the ...
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... nature than under- standing , thinks himself obliged to fall in with all the passions and humours of his yoke - fellow . ' Do not you remember , child , ' says she , ' that the pigeon - house fell the very afternoon that our care- less ...
... nature than under- standing , thinks himself obliged to fall in with all the passions and humours of his yoke - fellow . ' Do not you remember , child , ' says she , ' that the pigeon - house fell the very afternoon that our care- less ...
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... natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it , we turn the most in- different circumstances into misfortunes , and suffer as much from trifling accidents as from real evils . I have known the shooting of a star spoil a night's ...
... natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it , we turn the most in- different circumstances into misfortunes , and suffer as much from trifling accidents as from real evils . I have known the shooting of a star spoil a night's ...
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Page 26 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 181 - She turn'd— it stopt !— nought could she see Upon the gloomy plain ; But, as she strove the Sprite to flee, She heard the same again. Now terror seized her quaking frame ; For, where the path was bare. The trotting Ghost kept on the same : She mutter'd many a pray'r.
Page 194 - Behind a wide column, half breathless with fear, She crept to conceal herself there : That instant the moon o'er a dark cloud shone clear, And she saw in the moonlight two ruffians appear, And between them a corpse did they bear.
Page 192 - I'll wager a dinner," the other one cried, " That Mary would venture there now." " Then wager and lose," with a sneer he replied, " I'll warrant she'd fancy a ghost by her side, And faint if she saw a white cow.
Page 26 - Nor think, though men were none, That Heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake nnd when we sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 206 - 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 20 - The remark struck a panic terror into several who were present, insomuch that one or two of -the ladies were going to leave the room ; but a friend of mine taking notice that one of our female companions was...
Page 180 - The dappled herd of grazing deer, That sought the shades by day, Now started from her path with fear, And gave the stranger way. Darker it grew ; and darker fears Came o'er her troubled mind — • When now a short quick step she hears Come patting close behind. She...
Page 23 - I remember last winter there were several young girls of the neighbourhood sitting about the fire with my landlady's daughters, and telling stories of spirits and apparitions.
Page 23 - I took out of my pocket, heard several dreadful stories of ghosts as pale as ashes that had stood at the feet of a bed, or walked over a church-yard by moonlight...