Lectures on Witchcraft: Comprising a History of the Delusion in Salem, in 1692Carter and Hendee, 1831 - 300 Seiten |
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... probable that when they began they had any idea of the tremendous length to which they were finally led on . It was perhaps their original design to gratify a love of notoriety or of mischief , by creating a sensation and excitement in ...
... probable that when they began they had any idea of the tremendous length to which they were finally led on . It was perhaps their original design to gratify a love of notoriety or of mischief , by creating a sensation and excitement in ...
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... probable that the motive of self - preservation influenced most of them . An awful death was in immediate prospect . They saw no escape from the wiles of their malignant accusers . The delusion had ob- tained full possession of the ...
... probable that the motive of self - preservation influenced most of them . An awful death was in immediate prospect . They saw no escape from the wiles of their malignant accusers . The delusion had ob- tained full possession of the ...
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... probable , by the following fact recorded by Dr Neal in his History of New England . There was an organized association or committee of pri- vate individuals in Salem , during the con- tinuance of the delusion , who had under- taken and ...
... probable , by the following fact recorded by Dr Neal in his History of New England . There was an organized association or committee of pri- vate individuals in Salem , during the con- tinuance of the delusion , who had under- taken and ...
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... probable that reflecting persons would agree that the jury had acted in conformity with their obligations in convicting the per- sons accused . They had sworn to try them according to the law and the evidence . The law was certain ; it ...
... probable that reflecting persons would agree that the jury had acted in conformity with their obligations in convicting the per- sons accused . They had sworn to try them according to the law and the evidence . The law was certain ; it ...
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... probable that the phenomena of the external world would impress the unenlightened and unphilosophic observer with the belief that there was a diversity in the powers that caused them . He would imagine the agency of a being of an ...
... probable that the phenomena of the external world would impress the unenlightened and unphilosophic observer with the belief that there was a diversity in the powers that caused them . He would imagine the agency of a being of an ...
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Seite 237 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Seite 160 - It may please your grace to understand that witches and sorcerers within these few last years are marvellously increased within your grace's realm. Your grace's subjects pine away, even unto the death ; their colour fadeth, their flesh rotteth, their speech is benumbed, their senses are bereft. I pray God they never practise further than upon the subject.
Seite 216 - In short, when I consider the question, whether there are such persons in the world as those we call witches, my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions, or rather (to speak my thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as witchcraft; but at the same time can give no credit to any particular instance of it.
Seite 148 - Daphnim. 95 has herbas atque haec Ponto mihi lecta venena ipse dedit Moeris, nascuntur plurima Ponto; his ego saepe lupum fieri et se condere silvis Moerim, saepe animas imis excire sepulcris atque satas alio vidi traducere messis.
Seite 203 - God having appointed that secret supernatural sign, for trial of that secret unnatural crime : so that it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive them in her bosom, that have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof...
Seite 84 - It cost the Court a wonderful deal of trouble, to hear the testimonies of the sufferers ; for when they were going to give in their depositions, they would for a long time be taken with fits that made them uncapable of saying any thing. The chief judge asked the prisoner, who he thought hindered these witnesses from giving their testimonies? And he answered, "He supposed it was the devil." That honourable person replied, " How comes the devil then to be so loath to have any testimony borne against...
Seite 237 - Though castles topple on their warders' heads; Though palaces, and pyramids, do slope Their heads to their foundations ; though the treasure Of nature's germins tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken, answer me To what I ask you. 1 Witch. Speak. 2 Witch. Demand. 3 Witch. We'll answer, i Witch. Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters
Seite 244 - In June next ensuing, a great thunder-storm arose out of the north-west after which (the hemisphere being serene) about an hour before sun-set, a SHIP of like dimensions with the aforesaid, with her...
Seite 98 - ... you are a liar; I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink.
Seite 160 - There in a gloomy hollow glen she found A little cottage, built of stickes and reedes In homely...