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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![means to fail the Monday, and fo to order my bu- finefs as to fpend with him two or three days at leaft. I was indeed ftartled at fo much eagernefs^ and fo many dunnings lor a vlfit, without any bu- finefs; and began to fufpeft that there inufl; needs be fome defign in the bottom of all this excefs of courtefy. For I had np familiarity, fcarce com- mon acquaintance with the gentleman, or his fa- mily ; nor could I imagine whence ilioold arife fuch a flufli of friendfhip on the fudden. On the Monday I went and paid my promifed devoir, and met with entertainment as free and plentiful, as the invitation was importunate. There alfo I found a neighbouring miniiter, who pretended to call in accidentally, but by the fe- quel i fuppofe it otherv/ife. After dinner this brother of the coat undertook to fiiow me the gardens, where, as we were walking, he gave me the firft difcovery of what was rBaiiiiy intended in all this treat and compliment. Firft he began to inform me of the infelicity of the family in general, and then gave inliance in the yoLingeft fon. Fde related what a hopeful fprightly lad he lately was, and liow melanehoHck andfottifh he was now grown. Then did he with much pallion lament, that his ill humour Ihould fo incredibly fubdue his reafon ; (faith he) ‘‘ The poor boy believes himfelf to be haunted with gholls, and is confident that he meets with an evil fpirit in a certain field about half a mile fromr tliis place, as often as he goes that way to fchool.’^ In the midft of our difcourfe, the old gentleman- and bis lady (as obferving their cue moft exactly] came up to us. Upon their approach, and point- ing me to the arbour, the par fon renewed the rela- tion to, and they (the parents of the youth) con- firmed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28781545_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
