GHOST STORIES. COLLECTED BY T. M. JARVIS, ESQ. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Shakspeare. Hamlet. I think a person who is terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all histories, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to all traditions of all nations, thinks the appearances of spirits fabulous and groundless. Addison. Spectator, 110. There are no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion could become universal only by its truth. Johnson. Rasselas. Glanville has adduced some evidences of apparitions, which it is easier to ridicule than to disprove. Reginald Heber. Life of Taylor, p. cxi. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. ANDREWS, NEW BOND STREET. |