Observations Suggested by the Cattle Plague: About Witchcraft, Credulity, Superstition, Parliamentary Reform, and Other Matters

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Dalton & Lucy, 1866 - 99 páginas
 

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Página 55 - God in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call him.
Página 67 - They shall not be sought for in public counsel, Nor sit high in the congregation: They shall not sit on the judges' seat, Nor understand the sentence of judgment: They cannot declare justice and judgment; And they shall not be found where parables are spoken.
Página 34 - Never sign a walentine with your own name." " Sign it ' Pickvick,' then," said Mr. Weller ; " it's a wery good name, and a easy one to spell." " The wery thing," said Sam. " I could end with a werse ; what do you think?" " I don't like it, Sam,
Página 10 - ... regarded by the sensible people of all conditions, even by clergymen and preachers, with the most decided repugnance ; as we find expressly stated in the introduction to the Hexenhammer. " Even preachers of the Divine "Word did not hesitate to assure the people that there were no such things as witches ; that they had no arts by which they could injure men and animals ; by which imprudent language the secular arm was not unfrequently restrained from punishing such sorceries ; and thus they became...
Página 37 - ... complaint. In moving them from one field to another, one fell into a drain and got considerably chilled, but was observed to go on better from that time. Observing this, and being forbidden by the Inspector to bring the animals along the road up to his buildings, J. Farrow determined to try cool treatment, and with that view, made a sort of slight cover...
Página 99 - The truth is, all we can say, with reason and without superstition, is that facts show that one beast will often, but not certainly, catch the disease directly from another, but that there are no facts whatever to warrant belief in any further degree either of infection or contagion.
Página 55 - The theory of importation from " abroad is one which in former times was applied " to all plagues whatever, but it has now in all " other cases been deliberately exploded. What is " said of Rinderpest was said in ns many words of E 2
Página 56 - This view is so conformable to our prejudices and " old notions j so many matters are settled, so many " obligations dispensed with by looking at this " plague as a spark thrown among us, to be stamped " out with the foot, that it ought to be looked at
Página 55 - Times had a leading article, holding up the irrepressible Mr. Gamgee (as it called him) to the ridicule of all its readers in all quarters of the globe.

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