D. D. Home: His Life and MissionTrubner & Company, 1888 - 428 หน้า |
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accordion acquaintance afterwards appeared asked believe Carpenter chair Château communications convinced Count Countess Crookes dear declared Dunraven earth Elliottson Emperor England English evidence experiences expressed fact feel feet felt fingers gift give hand heard held Home's impressed Incidents interest investigation invitation Jencken Jermyn Street John Bright Komar lady letter light London Lord Adare Lord Brougham Lord Dunraven Lord Lindsay Lord Lytton Lyon Lytton Madame manifestations Milner Gibson moved narrative Nassau Senior nature never occasion occurred Paris passed persons pheno phenomena phenomenon played present published raps reader received remarkable replied Robert Bell Robert Chambers Russia S. C. Hall sceptic scientific séances with Home seen Serjeant Cox Sir Charles Nicholson Sir David sitters sitting society Spiritualism Spiritualist Strelna testimony thought tion told touched trance window wish witnessed wonderful words writes written wrote
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หน้า 390 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
หน้า 32 - There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
หน้า 338 - My readers will remember that, with the exception of cases specially mentioned, the occurrences have taken place in my own house, in the light, and with only private friends present besides the medium.
หน้า 18 - I went into the investigation, originally thinking it a deception, and intending to make public my exposure of it. Having, from my researches, come to a different conclusion, I feel that the obligation to make known the result is just as strong. Therefore it is, mainly, that I give the result to the world. I say mainly, because there is another consideration which influences me, and that is, the desire to extend to others a knowledge which I am conscious cannot but make them happier and better.
หน้า 300 - Lord Adare then went into the next room to look at the window from which he had been carried. It was raised about eighteen inches, and he expressed his wonder how Mr. Home had been taken through so narrow an aperture. Home said (still in trance), "I will show you...
หน้า 184 - Never have I seen human face so radiant as that young man's. There was in the aspect an indescribable something that literally dazzled. As one continued to gaze, it was with surprise, one was forced to acknowledge that in the features themselves there was no faultless regularity ; nor was the young man's stature imposing — about the middle height. But the effect of the whole was not less transcendent.
หน้า 341 - I have not detected any actual movement of the air, but the cold has been so intense that I could only compare it to that felt when the hand has been within a few inches of frozen mercury.
หน้า 301 - I must tell you; he is going out of the window in the other room, and coming in at this window." We heard Home go into the next room, heard the window thrown up, and presently Home appeared standing upright outside our window; he opened the window and walked in quite coolly.
หน้า 342 - ... in a wire cage, and when she had fallen fainting on a sofa. I have heard them on a glass harmonicon, I have felt them on my own shoulder, and under my own hands. I have heard them on a sheet of paper, held between the fingers by a piece of thread passed through one corner. With a full knowledge of the numerous theories which have been started, chiefly in America, to explain these sounds, I have tested them in every way that I could devise, until there has been no escape from the conviction that...
หน้า 41 - But even in the most cloudless skies of scepticism I see a rain-cloud, if it be no bigger than a man's hand ; it is modern Spiritualism.