Casper Hauser: An Account of an Individual, Kept in a Dungeon, Separated from All Communication with the World, from Early Childhood to about the Age of Seventeen : Drawn Up from Legal DocumentsAllen and Ticknor, 1832 - 178 |
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... taken , without success , to raise the veil of mystery hanging over this foul transaction , continued even by an attempt to murder the youth , when it was falsely reported in the newspapers , that he was occupied with writing his ...
... taken , without success , to raise the veil of mystery hanging over this foul transaction , continued even by an attempt to murder the youth , when it was falsely reported in the newspapers , that he was occupied with writing his ...
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... showing the proceedings of the police on this occasion prove , that they have been so irregular that the depositions taken contain so But the hand , with the following words : " 2 13 the captain's servant who opened the door, ...
... showing the proceedings of the police on this occasion prove , that they have been so irregular that the depositions taken contain so But the hand , with the following words : " 2 13 the captain's servant who opened the door, ...
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... taken for a kind of savage , and , in ex- pectation of the captain's return , he was con- ducted to the stable , where he immediately stretched himself on the straw , and fell into a profound sleep . He had already slept for some hours ...
... taken for a kind of savage , and , in ex- pectation of the captain's return , he was con- ducted to the stable , where he immediately stretched himself on the straw , and fell into a profound sleep . He had already slept for some hours ...
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... taken from the records of the police , where it was not to be found ; but from my own observations and from the written notes of persons on whom full reliance may be placed . wisdom teeth were yet wanting ; nor did they make 3 25 you ...
... taken from the records of the police , where it was not to be found ; but from my own observations and from the written notes of persons on whom full reliance may be placed . wisdom teeth were yet wanting ; nor did they make 3 25 you ...
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... taken by a skilful portrait painter ; because he felt assured that his features would soon alter . His wish was not gratified , but his prediction was very soon fulfilled . - thumb , whose tips he commonly held to- gether 27.
... taken by a skilful portrait painter ; because he felt assured that his features would soon alter . His wish was not gratified , but his prediction was very soon fulfilled . - thumb , whose tips he commonly held to- gether 27.
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Strona 61 - ... to teach him to stand. This he repeated at several different times. The manner in which he effected this was the following : he seized him firmly around the breast, from behind, placed his feet behind Caspar's feet, and lifted these, as in stepping forward. " Finally, the man appeared once again, placed Caspar's bands over his shoulders, tied them fast, and thus carried him on his back out of the prison.
Strona 36 - Not only his mind, but many of his senses appeared at first to be in a state of torpor, and only gradually to open to the perception of external objects. It was not before the lapse of several days that he began to notice the striking of the steeple clock, and the ringing of the bells. This threw him into the greatest astonishment, which at first' was expressed only by his listening looks and by certain spasmodic motions of his countenance; but it was soon succeeded by a. stare of benumbed meditation....
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Strona 61 - It is evident, and other circumstances prove it to be a fact, that Caspar could not yet, at that time, distinguish the motion of ascending from that of descending, or height from depth, even as to the impressions made upon his own feelings; and that he was consequently still less able to designate this difference correctly by means of words. What Caspar calls a hill, must, in all probability, have been a pair of stairs. Caspar also thinks he can recollect, that, in being carried, he brushed against...
Strona 118 - But, in general, he was accustomed to ask, respecting almost every production of nature, who made that thing? Of the beauties of nature he had no perception. Nor did nature seem to interest him otherwise than by exciting his curiosity, and by suggesting the question, who made such a thing? When, for the first time, he saw a rainbow, its view appeared for a few moments to give him pleasure. But he soon turned away from it; and he seemed to be much more interested in the question, who made it? than...
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