Footfalls on the Boundary of Another WorldJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1889 - 528 sider |
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Abercrombie adduced admit afterward agency Ahrensburg alleged Animal Magnetism apparition appeared authenticated believe Bodmin brother called Captain cause chance character Cideville circumstances clairvoyance connection daughter David Fox death disturbances door doubt dream evidence example existence experience extraordinary fact father gentleman Hahn hallucination happened heard human Hydesville imagine impression inquiry invisible agent Jansenists Joseph Glanvil Justinus Kerner knockings lady laws letter London Loudun mind miracle morning mother murder mystery Naples narrated narrative nature never night noises Norway o'clock observed occurred opinion Paris passed persons phenomena phenomenon present proof question racter reality reason regard remains remarkable replied residing Sadducismus Triumphatus says seemed seen senses sister sleep somnambulism sound spirit story suppose teinds testimony thing thought tion told true truth ultramundane usually Vauvert Wadebridge wife William Howitt witnesses words Yerville
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Side 45 - He that answereth a matter before he heareth it it is folly and shame unto him.
Side 72 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Side 29 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Side 74 - A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.
Side 127 - This eminent person had been consulted respecting a case of great importance, and much difficulty ; and he had been studying it with intense anxiety and attention. After several days had been occupied in this manner, he was observed by his wife to rise from his bed in the night, and go to a writing-desk which stood in the bed-room. He then sat down, and wrote a long paper, which he put carefully by in the desk, and returned to bed.
Side 31 - This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence : and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Side 229 - Robert Brown came over to me, and told me your father desired my company. When I came, he gave me an account of all that had happened, particularly the knocking during family prayer.' But that evening (to my great satisfaction) we had no knocking at all. But between nine and ten a servant came in, and said, ' Old Jeffrey is coming (that was the name of one that died in the house), for I hear the signal.
Side 169 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Side 85 - But what is more extraordinary; many of the miracles were immediately proved upon the spot, before judges of unquestioned integrity, attested by witnesses of credit and distinction, in a learned age, and on the most eminent theatre that is now in the world.
Side 149 - ... herself down in a great chair with arms, and presently fetching a strong breathing or two, immediately expired, and was so suddenly cold as was much wondered at by the physician and surgeon. She died at Waltham, in Essex, three miles from Chelmsford, and the letter was sent to Sir Charles at his house in Warwickshire ; but he was so afflicted...