The Unseen World: Communications with It, Real Or Imaginary, Including Apparitions, Warnings, Haunted Places, Prophecies, Aerial Visions, Astrology, EtcJ. Burns, 1847 - 216 pages |
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Page 49
... all doubtful . THEODORA . Such appearances as those of the great spectre of the Brocken , though strictly natu- ral , must have a most supernatural effect . PISTUS . They must : I have been witness to AERIAL APPARITIONS . 49.
... all doubtful . THEODORA . Such appearances as those of the great spectre of the Brocken , though strictly natu- ral , must have a most supernatural effect . PISTUS . They must : I have been witness to AERIAL APPARITIONS . 49.
Page 72
... with him ; he opposed his spiritual antagonist ; and a long and fearful struggle ensued . At length Mr. A. seemed to prevail , and to fling his enemy to the ground . On this the spectre started up , seized the brother 72 NIGHT IV .
... with him ; he opposed his spiritual antagonist ; and a long and fearful struggle ensued . At length Mr. A. seemed to prevail , and to fling his enemy to the ground . On this the spectre started up , seized the brother 72 NIGHT IV .
Page 73
... spectre started up , seized the brother I have mentioned , and after a short contest , brought him down . From that night Mr. A. continued to rally , till he was restored to perfect health ; and the next post , or next but one , came ...
... spectre started up , seized the brother I have mentioned , and after a short contest , brought him down . From that night Mr. A. continued to rally , till he was restored to perfect health ; and the next post , or next but one , came ...
Page 95
... spectre , and , of course , gave herself up for lost . She recovered , however , but another member of the house died ' . SOPHRON . In like manner a death in the family of the Lords of Chartley Park is foretold by the birth of a black ...
... spectre , and , of course , gave herself up for lost . She recovered , however , but another member of the house died ' . SOPHRON . In like manner a death in the family of the Lords of Chartley Park is foretold by the birth of a black ...
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... spectre of prodigious size appeared at Antioch ' , the night before the outbreak of the sedition in the time of Theodosius ; the same which gave rise to the homilies of S. Chrysostom on the Statues . Again , S. Gennadius , patriarch of ...
... spectre of prodigious size appeared at Antioch ' , the night before the outbreak of the sedition in the time of Theodosius ; the same which gave rise to the homilies of S. Chrysostom on the Statues . Again , S. Gennadius , patriarch of ...
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Page 39 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 130 - 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 55 - And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun •was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars ; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Page 55 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood...
Page 28 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 137 - I spake again, and it answered, in a voice neither very audible nor intelligible. I was not in the least terrified, and therefore persisted until it spake again, and gave me satisfaction. But the work could not be finished at this time ; wherefore the same evening, an hour after sunset, it met me again near the same place, and after a few words on each side, it quietly vanished, and neither doth appear since, nor ever will more to any man's disturbance.
Page 168 - ... saw the figure lying across him in the same position. To add to the wonder, on putting his hand forth to touch this form, he found the uniform, in which it appeared to be dressed, dripping wet. On the entrance of one of his brother officers, to whom he called out in alarm, the apparition vanished ; but in a few months after he received the startling intelligence that on that night his brother had been drowned in the Indian seas. Of the supernatural character of this appearance, Captain Kidd himself...
Page 136 - I dare aver, that the swiftest horse in England could not have conveyed himself out of sight in that short space of time. Two things I observed in this day's appearance.
Page 55 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 159 - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.