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... REMARKABLE AND BEST AUTHENTICATED STORIES OF APPARITIONS , DREAMS , SECOND SIGHT , SOMNAMBULISM , PREDICTIONS , DIVINATION , WITCHCRAFT , VAMPIRES , FAIRIES , TABLE - TURNING AND SPIRIT - RAPPING . SELECTED BY MARY HOWITT . IN TWO ...
... REMARKABLE AND BEST AUTHENTICATED STORIES OF APPARITIONS , DREAMS , SECOND SIGHT , SOMNAMBULISM , PREDICTIONS , DIVINATION , WITCHCRAFT , VAMPIRES , FAIRIES , TABLE - TURNING AND SPIRIT - RAPPING . SELECTED BY MARY HOWITT . IN TWO ...
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... Remarkable Dream of Dr. Doddridge Captain Rogers , R.N. ( Signs before Death ) . DREAMS . Dream of Nicholas Wootton ( Wanley's Wonders ) William Howitt's Dream Remarkable Dream by the Rev. J. Wilkins ( Signs before Death ) 417 Dream of ...
... Remarkable Dream of Dr. Doddridge Captain Rogers , R.N. ( Signs before Death ) . DREAMS . Dream of Nicholas Wootton ( Wanley's Wonders ) William Howitt's Dream Remarkable Dream by the Rev. J. Wilkins ( Signs before Death ) 417 Dream of ...
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... remarkable phenomenon of nature appeared as the acting personage . Even language was a prolific mother of gods and myths : and still more sprung out of the clothing of symbols , and the locked - up facts of hieroglyphic signs , sagas ...
... remarkable phenomenon of nature appeared as the acting personage . Even language was a prolific mother of gods and myths : and still more sprung out of the clothing of symbols , and the locked - up facts of hieroglyphic signs , sagas ...
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... remarkable verses ( B. 1041-46 ) : - " How much may not be said of things like these ? But to what end ? Thou need'st no farther go , And me it fits not to engage in them . Yet will I here in little much compress . And thus what here is ...
... remarkable verses ( B. 1041-46 ) : - " How much may not be said of things like these ? But to what end ? Thou need'st no farther go , And me it fits not to engage in them . Yet will I here in little much compress . And thus what here is ...
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... remarkable , too , that in Pliny's time the betrothal ring at Rome must be one of iron ; as earlier in Athens , the newly married , under the name of Anakes , brought offerings to the Dios- curi , in symbol of the reconcilement of ...
... remarkable , too , that in Pliny's time the betrothal ring at Rome must be one of iron ; as earlier in Athens , the newly married , under the name of Anakes , brought offerings to the Dios- curi , in symbol of the reconcilement of ...
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Page 129 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Page 130 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 130 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.