On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions: With an Account of MesmerismWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 248 sivua |
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afterwards ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON Alexis apparition appears Arnod asked attention believed body Boppard buried catalepsy cataleptic chemical decomposition clairvoyante colour convulsions death death-trance delusions described divining fork divining rod dream effects entranced person excite exoneural experiments eyes fact faculty feeling fingers Foolscap 8vo force forefinger forms of trance ghost grave hand heard Herr History of Europe Hold the odometer impressions initiatory instance JOHN GALT lady letter light living look Lord Ducie lucid magnet manifested mental mesmeriser mesmerism mind motion moved natural nervous system object observed occurred Octavo operator ordinary oscillations pain passed patient pheno phenomena phrenology present realised Reichenbach relation remarkable Renata Result-The scene Scottish seems seen seizure sensation sensible sensorial illusions sleep somnambulism superstition supposed thought thumb tion told trance-coma trance-sleep trance-waking truth Vampyr waking walked Weilbach William Blackwood Williamson witchcraft young
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Sivu 78 - Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Sivu 78 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. Allowing him a breath, a little scene. To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit.
Sivu 124 - Nothing in nature could better represent this strange and unaccountable operation, than for one to goad another, alternately on every side, with a piece of red-hot iron. The exercise commonly began in the head, which would fly backward and forward, and from side to side, with a quick jolt, which the person would naturally labor to suppress, but in vain...
Sivu 123 - The spasmodic tension of her muscles must have been enormous ; for she received one hundred blows, delivered with such force that the wall shook behind her. She thanked the man for his benevolent aid, and contemptuously censured De Montgeron for his weakness, or want of faith and timidity. It was, indeed, time for issuing the mandate, which, as wit read it, ran: "De par le roi — Defense a Dieu, De faire miracle en ce lieu.
Sivu 125 - He must necessarily go as he was stimulated, whether with a violent dash on the ground and bounce from place to place like a foot-ball, or hop round with head, limbs and trunk, twitching and jolting in every direction, as if they must inevitably fly asunder.
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