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frighted me but of my senses / and then you could make me believe ally nonsense . ' IV . What good ground had that information ? I will tell you all I know , I have a ^ ked Miss More . She says , had you asked
her , she would have told you that she knew nothing of the matter . Many people have known that I studied astrology , geomancy , and magic , and was of an abstract mind . They surmised * Common things looked extraordinary . Li tile things were greater .
I was reported a conjuror . I was teazed to tell fortunes , raise spirits ^ arid sornetirues to cast out a devil . Some pretemfed to a graver , curiosity , And asked me for a positive answer , to , . * Have you not seen and raised a spirit V I always
repjii ' d , * I will tell you any thing about them out of books , fcmt as to tny owp experience I will not say . * Can you deny it ?* I said , * I will not deny it . ' Thence , they affirmed it abroad . To sum up
air .- 1 , t befieve . 2 . I think I have reasoni . ' £ 9 Jib one was ey ^ r Witness to &iiy appearance wi ^ me . 4 u , 1 never toldany one that « ffer 1 raiseel a spirit . 5 > % will
not deny it ; I have jSi&id , sometimes , that I thought I had seen a spirit . . As I ttike it , your ipain wish is'to , knip \ V ,. \ y If | believe such an extiitiitipn possible ? I do . % If
J hkvp done it ^? I , iieVer did say , lipi- mean to saty jthat I have ; ( out for sopie reasonj I w ^ Jl not dfe ^ it . 3 , If Lean do it ? I do nbt know that I can . 4 , If , 1 be W « Rg | tb try ? t ^ I r ^ r be
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apprehensions foryour philosophy , on account of any experimental knowledge of mine . It I can say any thing more that is worth the while on this subject , or a better , 1 shall be glad of an epistle from you .
Farewel , I esteem you ; afcd opinions I regar 4 little . I am obliged by your friendly expressions in the letter . I vtish you all good and success in doing it . I should have answered sooner , but-for-bad eyes , and the company of strangers . ^ J pHN H&NPEKSON , < Pembroke College , Oxford ; ami Hankam 9 ttear Bristol , when in that Country .
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Anecdotes of Mr . Henderson , of Pembroke College , Oxford . , [ From the same . Vol . IV . pp . aai -224 . } April 3 , 1789 . Mr . Urban ,
Much has been said in your Miseella , ny > respecting the late JMr . Henderson , of Pembroke College , Ox ford j * wliose extraotv dinary abilities , a , nd eccentricity of character , justly rendered him during hi * life , an ojbject ofgeaje » . ral . curiosity , . and will continue to stamp an adscititious v ^ i ue iPii
any ^ u . thjeat ; ic particulars that may be reqo ^ d of him . . .. ... A , correspoudent in your last Magazine it quests Mr . A ^ utter to favour ( tbe > vorid , \ yith an account pf , i' t \) e literary courses JVJr . H (< u ^ sp ^ took , add the , va ~ rioqs ap ^ f >^ s J ^ e conversed with , in Jii ?> penetrations of t ^ e . obscure regiops xtf ^ ag iq , divinity , and physic , /' , ; ^ s Mr , ^ gu ^ or will in ; i ] J pipb ^ biJity return a copious
~> $ , lted&dM < xvi % , ijVZi in the $ fo 4 rear of his age .
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Letters of Mr . tienderHon to £ ir . Priestley ' . 269
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VOL . VII . 2 JP
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 289, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/9/
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