Notes on WitchcraftDavis Press, 1907 - 67 sidor |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 12
Sida 14
... Webster's assault upon Casaubon in his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft was made in apparent ignorance of the fact that the venerable scholar had been dead for some years ( see p . 24 , below ) . 32 Compare Reginald Scot's chapter " Of ...
... Webster's assault upon Casaubon in his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft was made in apparent ignorance of the fact that the venerable scholar had been dead for some years ( see p . 24 , below ) . 32 Compare Reginald Scot's chapter " Of ...
Sida 19
... Webster considers this subject at length in Chap . xii of his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft , 1677 , with a full discussion of van Helmont's views . Cf. Henry More , Antidote against Atheism , Chaps . 4-5 ( Philosophical Writings ...
... Webster considers this subject at length in Chap . xii of his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft , 1677 , with a full discussion of van Helmont's views . Cf. Henry More , Antidote against Atheism , Chaps . 4-5 ( Philosophical Writings ...
Sida 24
... Webster's Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft , which appeared in 1677 - the Preface is dated " February 23. 1673 " -was particularly directed against Glanvill and Meric Casaubon . It holds a distinguished place in the history of ...
... Webster's Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft , which appeared in 1677 - the Preface is dated " February 23. 1673 " -was particularly directed against Glanvill and Meric Casaubon . It holds a distinguished place in the history of ...
Sida 25
... Webster's opinions must be specified , that the reader may judge how far The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft deserves to rank as a work of sober and scien- tific reason , and to what extent the author merits the position that seems to ...
... Webster's opinions must be specified , that the reader may judge how far The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft deserves to rank as a work of sober and scien- tific reason , and to what extent the author merits the position that seems to ...
Sida 26
... Webster , " as a thing that hath been very much fixed in my memory , being then but young , and as a certain truth , I being ( with many more ) an ear- witness of their confessions and an eye - witness of their Executions , and likewise ...
... Webster , " as a thing that hath been very much fixed in my memory , being then but young , and as a certain truth , I being ( with many more ) an ear- witness of their confessions and an eye - witness of their Executions , and likewise ...
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
Vanliga ord och fraser
admitted Annals of Witchcraft appear Balthasar Bekker belief in witchcraft Bible chap Chetham Society Chetham Society reprint Chief Justice Holt Colonists condemned Cotton Mather Cotton Mather's craft Dæmon death delusion demonology deny devil Discourse Discoverie of Witches Displaying of Supposed Divine edition England Essex evil spirits executed for witchcraft fact forefathers Francis Francis Hutchinson Geschichte der Hexenprozesse Glanvill's Gough Hale's hath Heppe Historical Essay history of witchcraft Hutchinson Jane Wenham John Webster Joseph Glanvill judge letter London maleficium malice Massachusetts matter Matthew Hopkins Meric Casaubon Mother Country Narratives of Sorcery natural Northampton Notes and Queries passage persons prosecution Puritan Salem outbreak Salem Witchcraft Satan Scot Scot's Scotland Scriptures Series seventeenth century Soldan Sorcery and Magic Sorcery and Witchcraft spectral evidence strange testimony things Thomas treatise true Tryal of Witches Webster whole wicked Wier Wier's witch dogma witch trials wizards York Depositions
Populära avsnitt
Sida 61 - In short, when I consider the question, whether there are such persons in the world as those we call witches, my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions: or rather (to speak my thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been, such a thing as witchcraft ; but at the same time can give no credit to any particular instance of it.
Sida 9 - That there were such creatures as witches, he made no doubt at all. For, first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Sida 58 - The Discovery of Witches: in. Answer to severall Queries, lately delivered to the Judges of Assize for the County of Norfolk.
Sida 9 - ... wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime. And such hath been the judgment of this kingdom, as appears by that Act of Parliament which hath provided punishments proportionable to the quality of the offence. And...
Sida 12 - ... he was clearly of opinion, that the persons were bewitched; and said, that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches who used the very same way of afflicting persons, by conveying pins into them, and crooked as these pins were, with needles and nails.
Sida 8 - Rutterkin) to make away those Children, out of mere malignity and thirst of revenge. But since the beginning of these unnatural Wars, there may be a cloud of Witnesses...
Sida 32 - I think not that their witchcraft is any real power; but yet that they are justly punished, for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief, joined with their purpose to do it if they can; their trade being nearer to a new religion than to a craft or science.
Sida 32 - ... Englishmen closely connected with the party dominant in the mother country, and with their minds broadened by having to deal with questions of state and European policy. After that time they sank rapidly into provincials, narrow in thought, in culture, in creed. Such a pedantic portent as Cotton Mather...
Sida 51 - ... with a great degree of warmth and vigour, as if determined to awaken and engage the powers below. I sa't at a small distance, not more than thirty feet from them, (though undiscovered), with my Bible in my hand, resolving, if possible, to spoil their sport, and prevent their receiving any answers from the infernal world, and there viewed the whole scene.
Sida 14 - A Treatise Proving Spirits, Witches, and Supernatural Operations by Pregnant Instances and Evidences (London, 1672), in Christine Hole, A Mirror of Witchcraft, 31.