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... singular and extra- ordinary ; whereas , in fact , there is nothing extra- ordinary in it . My lord , almost every place conceals some remains . In fields , in hills , in highway sides , in commons , lie frequented and unsuspected bones ...
... singular and extra- ordinary ; whereas , in fact , there is nothing extra- ordinary in it . My lord , almost every place conceals some remains . In fields , in hills , in highway sides , in commons , lie frequented and unsuspected bones ...
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... asso- siates , we refer our readers to Hutchinson's His- tory of Witchcraftry , page 61 ; where will be found a most singular and interesting account of them . It is most probably to Hopkins , that Butler refers MATTHEW HOPKINS . 47.
... asso- siates , we refer our readers to Hutchinson's His- tory of Witchcraftry , page 61 ; where will be found a most singular and interesting account of them . It is most probably to Hopkins , that Butler refers MATTHEW HOPKINS . 47.
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... singular as it may appear , after he left the seminary , he scarcely ever read any book . From Westminster , he went to Geneva , where he laid the foundation of those sports for which he professed so much par- tiality to the day of his ...
... singular as it may appear , after he left the seminary , he scarcely ever read any book . From Westminster , he went to Geneva , where he laid the foundation of those sports for which he professed so much par- tiality to the day of his ...
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... singular . As soon as they were perfectly dry from hunting , if the weather was clear , he always turned them out for two or three hours , let the cold be ever so intense . Thus they walked off the stiffness occasioned by fa- tigue ...
... singular . As soon as they were perfectly dry from hunting , if the weather was clear , he always turned them out for two or three hours , let the cold be ever so intense . Thus they walked off the stiffness occasioned by fa- tigue ...
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... , is not the least singular among the anec- dotes that are recorded of Mr. Elwes : but it is too well authenticated to be doubted . I had the circumstance related to me by the late Colonel Timms himself 100 JOHN ELWES , ESQ .
... , is not the least singular among the anec- dotes that are recorded of Mr. Elwes : but it is too well authenticated to be doubted . I had the circumstance related to me by the late Colonel Timms himself 100 JOHN ELWES , ESQ .
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Página 14 - ... some attention; because, my lord, that any person, after a temperate use of life, a series of thinking and acting regularly, and without one single deviation from sobriety, should plunge into the very depth of profligacy precipitately and at once, is altogether improbable and unprecedented, and absolutely inconsistent with the course of things.
Página 48 - Some only for not being drown'd, And some for sitting above ground Whole days and nights, upon their breeches, And feeling pain, were hang'd for witches ; And some for putting knavish tricks Upon green geese and turkey-chicks, Or pigs that suddenly deceast Of griefs unnatural, as he guest ; Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech...
Página 14 - I find myself charged with the highest crime, with an enormity I am altogether incapable of; a fact, to the commission of which there goes far more insensibility of heart, more profligacy of morals, than ever fell to my lot ; and nothing possibly could have admitted a presumption of this nature but a depravity not inferior to that imputed to me. However, as I stand indicted at your lordship's bar, and have heard what is called evidence adduced in...
Página 15 - ... before, I had been confined to my bed, and suffered under a very long and severe disorder, and was not able, for half a year together, so much as to walk. The distemper left me indeed, yet slowly and in part ; but so macerated, so enfeebled, that I was reduced to crutches...
Página 20 - ... chance exposed ? And might not a place where bones lay be mentioned by a person by chance as well as found by a labourer by chance ? Or is it more criminal accidentally to name where bones lie, than accidentally to...
Página 19 - About the same time, and in another field, almost close to this borough, was discovered also, in searching for gravel, another human skeleton ; but the piety of the same worthy gentleman ordered both...
Página 17 - The place of their depositum, too, claims much more attention than is commonly bestowed upon it ; for of all places in the world, none could have mentioned any one wherein there was greater certainty of finding human bones than a hermitage, except he should point out a churchyard ; hermitages, in time past, being not only places of religious retirement, but of burial too...
Página 109 - but Mr. -, I have one thing to say to you — in my opinion my legs are not much hurt ; now you think they are— so I will make this agreement: I will take one leg, and you shall take the other; you shall do what you please with yours, and', I will do nothing to mine ; and I will wager your bill that my leg gets well the first.
Página 17 - ... being not only places of religious retirement, but of burial too. And it has scarce or never been heard of, but that every cell now known contains or contained these relics of humanity — some mutilated, and some entire.
Página 16 - Permit me next, my lord, to observe a little upon the bones which have been discovered. It is said (which, perhaps, is saying very far), that these are the skeleton of a man. It is possible, indeed, it may ; but is there any certain known criterion which incontestably distinguishes the sex in human bones.