Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor.
- Date:
- 1791
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ =9 ] contrafl: made between her and her dear departed friend the Duchefs of Mazarine. It was in vain I urged the ftrong probability there was that fouls in another world might not be per- mitted to perform the engagements they had en- tered into in this, efpecially, when they were of a nature, repugnant to the divine Will.—Which, faid I, has inanifejlly placed a Jlaming fioord be- tween human knowledge and the proJpe£l of that glorious Eden^ we hope, by Faith, to be inheritors of hereafter. Therefore, added /, her grace of Mazarine may be in pojfeffion of all thofe immenfe ' felicities which are prormfed to the virtuous, and even now interceding that the dear partner of her heart may fiare the fame, yet may be denied the privilege f imparting to you what fhe is, or that fie exyis at ail. | Nothing I could fay made the leaft imprellion; and I found, to niy great concern, that fhe was become as great an advocate for the liew doflrine of non exiflence after death, as any of thofe who firft propofed it; on which, from that time for- ward, 1 avoided all difeourfe with her on that head. It was not however many months after we had this converfation, that I happened to be at the houfe of a perfon of condition, whom, fince the death of the Duchefs of Mazarine, Madam de Beauclair had the greateft intimacy with of any of her acquaiiuance. We were juft fat down to cards about mne o’clock in the evening, as near as I can remember, v,?hen a fervant came haftily into the room, and acquainted the lady I was with, that Madam de Beauclair had fent to intreat foe would come that moment to her; adding, that B3 if](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28781545_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
