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Pàgina vii
... which the lights are turned down so as to make ' darkness visible , ' a figure dressed in some strange guise enters between the curtains , and dis- plays itself to the spectators as an ' embodied spirit PREFACE . vii.
... which the lights are turned down so as to make ' darkness visible , ' a figure dressed in some strange guise enters between the curtains , and dis- plays itself to the spectators as an ' embodied spirit PREFACE . vii.
Pàgina viii
... spirit - hand , ' which he finds very like a mortal one . The ' spirit ' withdraws behind the cur- tains , after a short interval the lights are raised , and the ' medium ' returns to the company in propriâ personâ . The sceptic then ...
... spirit - hand , ' which he finds very like a mortal one . The ' spirit ' withdraws behind the cur- tains , after a short interval the lights are raised , and the ' medium ' returns to the company in propriâ personâ . The sceptic then ...
Pàgina 42
... spirit more than forty years ago , ' it is impossible by any voluntary effort to keep the hand absolutely still for a length of time in the position required ; an involuntary tremulousness is always ob- servable in the suspended body ...
... spirit more than forty years ago , ' it is impossible by any voluntary effort to keep the hand absolutely still for a length of time in the position required ; an involuntary tremulousness is always ob- servable in the suspended body ...
Pàgina 58
... spirits ' through the air all the way from Edinburgh to London in that hour , I ask whether the ' common sense ' of the whole Court would not revolt at such an assertion , as a thing not in rerum naturâ . And yet there are at the ...
... spirits ' through the air all the way from Edinburgh to London in that hour , I ask whether the ' common sense ' of the whole Court would not revolt at such an assertion , as a thing not in rerum naturâ . And yet there are at the ...
Pàgina 64
... spirits as an indubitable fact , on the following grounds : -- She would suddenly , in the presence of a number of spectators , fall into a trance , rise up , place herself in a riding attitude as if setting out for the Sabbath , and ...
... spirits as an indubitable fact , on the following grounds : -- She would suddenly , in the presence of a number of spectators , fall into a trance , rise up , place herself in a riding attitude as if setting out for the Sabbath , and ...
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