... compliments by bending their bodies as we did; after which they vanished. We retained our position, kept our eyes fixed on the same spot, and in a little time the two figures again stood before us, and were joined by a third. Every movement that we... An Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions - Página 14por John Ferriar - 1813 - 139 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Hibbert - 1825 - 514 páginas
...were formed over the above eminence, which repeated our compliment by bending their bodies as we did ; after which they vanished. We retained our position,...opportunity of discovering the whole secret of this phenomenon, I can give the following information to such of my readers as may be desirous of seeing... | |
| 1829 - 392 páginas
...kept our eyes fixed on the same spot ; and in a little time the two figures again stood before us. Every movement that we made by bending our bodies...sometimes strong and well defined. Having thus had a sufficient opportunity of examining the Spectre of the Broken, I am enabled to give the following... | |
| Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 500 páginas
...traveller who then came up and joined the party). Every movement made hy us, these figures imitated , hut with this difference, that the phenomenon was sometimes...Having thus had an opportunity of discovering the wh'.le secret of the phenomenon, I can give the following information to such of my readers as may... | |
| 1833 - 448 páginas
...they vanished. We retained our position, kept our eyes fixed on the same spot, and in a little time the two figures again stood before us, and were joined...opportunity of discovering the whole secret of this phenomenon, I can give the following information to such of my readers as may be desirous of seeing... | |
| 1834 - 506 páginas
...they vanished. We retained our position, kept our eyes fixed upon the same spot, and in a little time the two figures again stood before us, and were joined...opportunity of discovering the whole secret of this phenomenon, I can give the following information to such of my readers as may be desirous of seeing... | |
| James Hogg - 1837 - 382 páginas
...above eminence. We retained our position, kept our eyes fixed on the same spot, and in a little time the two figures again stood before us, and were joined by a third. Every movement that we made, these figures imitated, but with this difference, that the phenomenon was sometimes weak and faintly... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - 1842 - 418 páginas
...vanished. " We retained our position, kept our eyes fixed on the same spot, and, in a little while, the two figures again stood before us, and were joined by a third, which was most likely the double reflection of one of us. Every movement that we made by bending our... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 páginas
...they vanished. We retained our position, kept our eyes fixed on the same spot, and in a short time the two figures again stood before us, and were joined...weak and faint, sometimes strong and well defined." Among a people so fond of mystery, so much addicted to superstition, as the Germans, whose every mountain... | |
| David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 páginas
...they vanished. We retained our position, kept our eyes fixed on the same spot, and in a short time the two figures again stood before us, and "were joined...weak and faint, sometimes strong and well defined." It is to be regretted, that M. Haiiy does not mention which of the two shadows was doubly copied when... | |
| Wilson Armistead - 1852 - 328 páginas
...by a third," that of a traveller who then came up and joined the party. " Every movement made by us these figures imitated ; but with this difference,...weak and faint, sometimes strong and well defined."* * Clarke's Wonders of the World, pp. 434, 435. RUSTIC POETS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT. AMONG the various... | |
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