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himself for a moment that his sight had deceived Mm 5 ivinjt > if ^^ mphui ^ ofM odour m djtbfe : roat : of flames were at the sani e time perceptibl e ^ ifa@& ? &i 8 vHd be Tesisfiflbet ^ Bvk ^ tion that he was in presence ^^ hisfSe ^ tii&TOfaj el ^ 9 Thel iinpr ^ sian ) must be yet m ore forcible ! if th « appeai ^ rtt ^ i ^^ l ?|) e ^ tStJi mdtkft > miu& \ wrought up by fear and intent observationii iJtenv&toxtt&Q&lfi&i records , Kwknijall good faith , his experience of a trial of ^ NeWdin atoc ^ , fe ^ which an ahmM person * was to be compelled to appear ^ and frcftft Whdm
ihteitigeocejws % actually obtained * Devils appeared in -legions -t&iiw ^ middt such ; islta 4 ojEi ?? 3 , [ flanies and smoke , that it is pretty clear the e ilitis 1 tfft was | irb ^ duee ^ i toy figu res from a magic lantern displayed on the vapdjsrs arming ¦ fMffi burnijft ^ perljjmeSfc The vindicators of the doctrine of s tipeiftattrral ? appear ^ ance % ijpnsuieh-there be , may well afford to relinquish testimony of tM ^ mtiire > ! though the witnesses must decamp by thousands . ; < ¦ ?; - i = A . deception quite as common , and wholly innocent , has in ntrmbetfesis of
instances ^ arisen fro m a misinterpretation natural af > pearanees ^ Th £ shepherd , leading his sheep to the downs on a sultry morntng ^ sends a glance over the oce ^ n , and sees no sail , but is startled by the image of an inverted ship in the clouds . He believes it a spectre . The forest-ranger sees gleams of light for whose origin he cannot account , playing oil the stems and tbKagd of distant trees . They proceed from some hidden , glistening pool t but to
his alarmed imagination , they present a bodily shape , and he reports of a troop of spiritual hunters , coursing with the rapidity of lightning . -The simple Vaudois , returning home as the twilight draws on , meditating on the wrongs of some martyred ancestor , casts his eyes upwards to sonfie ^ dfflg where a pine , laden with snow , nods to the blast . The mountaineer enters his cottage ; awed , yet elated in soul , with a tale of the appearance of a spirit ,
waving a white banner on the steep . The story of the Giant of the ^ Brdekei * is known to all : that he manifested himself only among the nMsts ^ n th ^ mountain top ; that his majestic form was seen by a imdtitttjde ; of successive visitors ; that gesture and sound were attributed to > Ehimv ^ ithm va ^ fcety ^ df superhuman powers ; that he maintained his inflciericeove'Hthe ipoptrfar mind for a length of years , till it was discoveredtthafc be in % itated hifir > beiholders in actions so peculiar that an inquiry into « his nature was
courageously and successfully instituted ^ when it appeared that thus » gra ? iidest ? ; of ghosts was no more than a highly-magnified reflection of theohuniaiiffiguret in a miaU The far-famed spectre of the Haiti became as ? > pow $ r \ es& > tdiert \ fyi as the flitting , image of the human face in a glassu The ghpk ^ seeV ^ wtoo live among i mists and storms , or in the depths of forest ^ are sttejiicibus witnesses ; and their testimony can well be sparedt ' / nt ; ; fi , - i Ji . rjjfin ^ The ( power > of association is a princip al agents In sihei casges «* f n whrd ^ Wei
have last spoken , and from it , another larger class W fat ^ teed ^ ojilfitbci operas tion ^ of / ibis ; Ikculty had not been ! dosely Javesligatedi ibyiidiligent > inAiwr ^ ts , wet should notHy ^ et haVe obtained any kdeq [ uate c&nceptioi \ of the ^ iacui ^> dfi its iihflue ^ G 6 <; ( or have been emancipated framUhei « ttpetstitron */ w ^« C 5 h tyUm * origiu ^ tedi -We speak at ; present of io nty © we etimtnon < dffec «^ ofmn&ftQmtiw - ^ tbinkhy whicU ^ tbe petcept » ioDio 6 a pari of any thtingiJswgg © dbitli «^ 3 teari 0 l' the ! uffoolfi ^ uCShiMrea Jove - to twirl lighted sticks ^ ttttd ^ gnxAty ^ tioiti ^ m "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1830, page 749, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2590/page/21/
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