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... stories hitherto unpublished , the writer has related none which he has not good grounds for believing ; and he has endea- voured to state , in each particular account , the degree of evidence by which it is supported . He ought ...
... stories hitherto unpublished , the writer has related none which he has not good grounds for believing ; and he has endea- voured to state , in each particular account , the degree of evidence by which it is supported . He ought ...
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... story I should not have ventured to relate to you , were I not perfectly well acquainted with those to whom it happened ; and , from the number of concurrent witnesses , it is as impossible that they should have been deceived themselves ...
... story I should not have ventured to relate to you , were I not perfectly well acquainted with those to whom it happened ; and , from the number of concurrent witnesses , it is as impossible that they should have been deceived themselves ...
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... story has been critically examined by Padre Antonio Pereira , a scholar of great and deserved eminence in antiquities , as well as in ecclesiastical literature ; and the result of his inquiry is , that there are not sufficient grounds ...
... story has been critically examined by Padre Antonio Pereira , a scholar of great and deserved eminence in antiquities , as well as in ecclesiastical literature ; and the result of his inquiry is , that there are not sufficient grounds ...
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... stories of the most absurd omens having been proved true by the event , in a way which can hardly be the effect of chance , but which may thus be very plausibly , if not probably , explained . SOPHRON . I will give you an instance . Who ...
... stories of the most absurd omens having been proved true by the event , in a way which can hardly be the effect of chance , but which may thus be very plausibly , if not probably , explained . SOPHRON . I will give you an instance . Who ...
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... story is , that a perfect stranger should , apparently without any definite cause , have stopped to re- late the accident then . PISTUS . We ought to look on such an event as a trial of the faith of the person to whom it hap- pened ...
... story is , that a perfect stranger should , apparently without any definite cause , have stopped to re- late the accident then . PISTUS . We ought to look on such an event as a trial of the faith of the person to whom it hap- pened ...
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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.