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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![loud, and with great eommotion, which Sir Ralph the more eafily obferved and perceived, becaufe he kept his eyes always fixed upon the duke, having procured the conference upon fomewhat he knew was very extraordinary. The man told him in his return over the water, that when he mentioned thofe particulars that was to gain him credit, (the fubfiance whereof he laid he durft not impart unto him) the duke’s colour changed, and he fwore he could come at that knowledge only by the devil; for that thofe parti- culars were only known to himfelf and to one perfdn more, who he was fure would never fpeak of it. How ftrongly does this confirm the opinion, that the foul, when departed, hasa knowledge of the aftions of the living, and willing to do any office for their good, if permitted. The duke purfued his purpofe of hunting, bul was obferved to ride all the morning with great penfivenefs and in deep thought without any delight in the exercife he was upon; and before the morning was fpent, left the field, and alighted at his mother’s lodgings in Whitehall, with whom he was fhut up for the fpace of two or three hours, the noife of their difcourfe frequently reaching the ears of thofe who attended in the next rooms. And when the duke left her, his countenance appeared full of trouble, with a mixture of anger; a countenance that was never before obferved in him in any converfation with her, towards whom he had a profound reverence; and the countefs herfelf [for though fhe was married to a private gentleman, Sir Thomas Compton, fhe bad been created countefs of Buckingham fhonly after her fon had firft affumed that title] was, at the duke’s leaving her, found over-whelmed in tears, and ia the higheft agony imaginable.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28781545_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
