Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volumen6Chetham Society., 1845 |
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... present a more vivid picture of manners than that in which the account of this case of witchcraft is contained . It is perhaps the rarest of the English tracts relating to witchcraft , and is entitled " The most strange and admirable ...
... present a more vivid picture of manners than that in which the account of this case of witchcraft is contained . It is perhaps the rarest of the English tracts relating to witchcraft , and is entitled " The most strange and admirable ...
Página viii
... present we have to collect all that is known of his life from various scattered and contradictory sources . John Webster , in his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft , contrary to the usual candour and fair- ness of his judgments , speaks ...
... present we have to collect all that is known of his life from various scattered and contradictory sources . John Webster , in his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft , contrary to the usual candour and fair- ness of his judgments , speaks ...
Página xxii
... present Sense of the Chief Inhabitants of that Place , I wrote to Mr. Wilson , the Incumbent of that Town , and by his Means received the following Letter from Mr. Rivett , a worthy Gentleman who lived lately in the same Place , and ...
... present Sense of the Chief Inhabitants of that Place , I wrote to Mr. Wilson , the Incumbent of that Town , and by his Means received the following Letter from Mr. Rivett , a worthy Gentleman who lived lately in the same Place , and ...
Página xxiv
... present the conflicting theories of government , it may be allowable to express a doubt whether even the famous author of the " Essay on the Human Understanding , " to whose culminating star the decadence of the rival in- telligence is ...
... present the conflicting theories of government , it may be allowable to express a doubt whether even the famous author of the " Essay on the Human Understanding , " to whose culminating star the decadence of the rival in- telligence is ...
Página xxxix
... present site , from which no sacrilegious hand will , I trust , ever again remove them . It is further said , that Webster's favourite and regular walk , in the latter and most characteristic performance , with two famous medical ...
... present site , from which no sacrilegious hand will , I trust , ever again remove them . It is further said , that Webster's favourite and regular walk , in the latter and most characteristic performance , with two famous medical ...
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Página xl - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Página xxxvi - Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Página 6 - Cause I am poor, deform'd, and ignorant, And like a bow buckled and bent together By some more strong in mischiefs than myself; Must I for that be made a common sink For all the filth and rubbish of men's tongues To fall and run into...
Página 7 - I'd go out of myself, And give this fury leave to dwell within This ruin'd cottage, ready to fall with age ! Abjure all goodness, be at hate with prayer, And study curses, imprecations, Blasphemous speeches, oaths, detested oaths, Or...
Página xxxvi - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; " raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Página 12 - Charm, The owl is abroad, the bat and the toad, And so is the cat-a-mountain ; The ant and the mole sit both in a hole, And frog peeps out o
Página xxxi - Peace;" and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him : therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision ; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Página 10 - 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.
Página xxxi - Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision ; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded : yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Página xxxviii - And Divers persons under a passive Delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. But that there is a Corporeal League made betwixt the Devil and the Witch...