On Hallucinations: A History and Explanation of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and SomnambulismH. Renshaw, 1859 - 455 |
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... wife , whom he found with Lady Essex , her sister , and Mrs. Ramsay . He was asked why he returned so suddenly . He told his motive ; and on perusing the letters in the packet , he found that his lady had written to him , requesting his ...
... wife , whom he found with Lady Essex , her sister , and Mrs. Ramsay . He was asked why he returned so suddenly . He told his motive ; and on perusing the letters in the packet , he found that his lady had written to him , requesting his ...
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... wife appeared to him , and remained immovable till he could again obtain a light , when it disappeared . " This made a strong impression on the boy's mind ; and fearing to aggravate his father's grief should he relate the Ramsgate ...
... wife appeared to him , and remained immovable till he could again obtain a light , when it disappeared . " This made a strong impression on the boy's mind ; and fearing to aggravate his father's grief should he relate the Ramsgate ...
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... wife were wanting in common sense ; I know that I have nothing to reproach her with . But if my mind has been dis- tracted , it is not less true that it was caused by a scene which I witnessed , and which I will relate to you . " I was ...
... wife were wanting in common sense ; I know that I have nothing to reproach her with . But if my mind has been dis- tracted , it is not less true that it was caused by a scene which I witnessed , and which I will relate to you . " I was ...
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... wife followed him ; and his sister - in - law , finding they did not return , did the same . Their pro- longed absence alarmed the servant , who went to ascertain the cause , and hastily returned , uttering cries of terror , and fled ...
... wife followed him ; and his sister - in - law , finding they did not return , did the same . Their pro- longed absence alarmed the servant , who went to ascertain the cause , and hastily returned , uttering cries of terror , and fled ...
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... wife , my children , and myself plotted together to poison him . He asked our pardons for this idea , feeling that it must seem very strange , and admitted that , if any one else had said such a thing , he would justly be regarded as ...
... wife , my children , and myself plotted together to poison him . He asked our pardons for this idea , feeling that it must seem very strange , and admitted that , if any one else had said such a thing , he would justly be regarded as ...
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Strona 275 - In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country, of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.
Strona 219 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the temple, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, a voice against all the people.
Strona 324 - That, as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states of the brain in one point — that whatsoever I happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams...
Strona 325 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically; but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend.
Strona 298 - This, how strange soever it may seem, I protest before the eternal God is true, neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein, since I did not only clearly hear the noise, but in the serenest sky that ever I saw, being without all cloud, did to my thinking see the place from whence it came.
Strona 326 - I have called the tyranny of the human face began to unfold itself. Perhaps some part of my London life might be answerable for this. Be that as it may, now it was that upon the rocking waters of the ocean the human face began to appear ; the sea appeared paved with innumerable faces upturned to the heavens — faces imploring, wrathful, despairing, surged upwards by thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries : my agitation was infinite ; my mind tossed and surged with the ocean.
Strona 325 - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Strona 326 - The waters now changed their character, — from translucent lakes, shining like mirrors, they now became seas and oceans. And now came a tremendous change, which, unfolding itself slowly like a scroll, through many months, promised an abiding torment; and, in fact, it never left me until the winding up of my case.
Strona 174 - R d thought that he informed his father of the cause of his distress, adding that the payment of a considerable sum of money was the more unpleasant to him, because he had a strong consciousness that it was not due, though he was unable to recover any evidence in support of his belief. " You are right, my son," replied the paternal shade ; " I did acquire right to these teinds, for payment of which you are now prosecuted.
Strona 298 - 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...