 | mrs. Yorke - 1801 - 280 pages
...who believe in apparitions, than those who reject all extraordinary revelations of this kind, and, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, think the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. Could we... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...ridiculous horrors, did not I find them so very much prevail in all parts of the country. At the same lime I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination...historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. Could not... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...ridiculous horrors, did not I find them so very much prevail in all parts of the country. At the same time I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination...historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. Could not... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 pages
...apartments in his house which had been shut up on suspicion of being haunted, he adds, "At the same time I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination...of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modem, and the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous 3«d groundless."... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...ridiculous horrors, did not I find them so very much prevail in all parts of the country. At the same time I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination...historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, ..nil to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. Could... | |
 | Medicine - 1810 - 546 pages
...quote the authority of one of our most approved writers. " I think," says Addison, " a person who is terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres,...historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of ghosts fabulous and groundless. Gould not... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...ridiculous horrors, did not I find them so very much prevail in all parts of the country. At the same time I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination...historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.11 Could... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...ridiculous horrors, did not I find them so very much prevail in all parts of the country. At the same time I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination...historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.b Could... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...horrors, did not I Gad them so very much prevail in all parts ol the country. At the same time , I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination...spectres, much more reasonable than one who, contrary to die reports of all historians eacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...ridiculous horrors, did not I find them so very much prevail in all parts of the country. At the same time I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination...historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. Could not... | |
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At the same time I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable, than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations,... 
