A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles / By Theophilus Insulanus [pseud.] [i.e. D. M'Leod].

  • Macleod, Donald, 1729?-1781
Date:
1763
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Credit: A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles / By Theophilus Insulanus [pseud.] [i.e. D. M'Leod]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tempfychofis, fo much infifted on by Pythagoras in his fyftem of philofophy ; and that a being who lived long a falamander, dropt that exiftence, to animate the perfon of the avowed author of the N. B. Whatever may have happened of this, without having recourfe to fiction or new opinion ftarted from an uncertain principle, we may judge from his laborious literary performances, which are reckoned the beft chart of a man’smind and difpo- fition, and fhall find him fo expert and compleat a ‘mafter in fire-work, that the blaze of his art already © exhibited, may, like the tail of a lowring comet, kindle a part of our Briti/; hemifphere, unlefs a feafonable ftop is put to the rapidity of its progrefs. Divide et impera, is a ftandard political maxim, broached or renewed by Machiavel ; and ever fince, when exerted with addrefs and fpirit, never fails of good fuccefs, by the indifputable teft of experience; its operations, indeed, are various and powerful ; they unhinge government ; divide nations united, by the ftrongeft bonds of law and intereft ; abfolve a fubject from his allegeance to his fovereign, guar- dian of the law, and the beloved father and friend of his people ; feparate man and wife ; teach chil- dren to be difobedient to parents, and lawful ma- giftrates ; foment divifions, fofter factions, lead to intefine war, and make long ftrides to confu- fion, anarchy, and rebellion. It will not be denied by the majority of both nations, that Mr.//—shas ‘g&ed in this fphere: The firf difplay of his artillery appeared againft the Ear] of Burs, and as if that minifter was too inconfiderable a fubject for the