Date: 1704
"For, some think that the spirit is apt to feed on the flesh, like hungry wines upon raw beef."
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Date: 1704
"Others rather believe there is a perpetual game at leap-frog between both, and sometimes the flesh is uppermost, and sometimes the spirit; adding that the former, while it is in the state of a rider, wears huge Rippon spurs, and when it comes to the turn of be...
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Date: 1704
"Some again think that when our earthly tabernacles are disordered and desolate, shaken and out of repair, the spirit delights to dwell within them, as houses are said to be haunted, when they are forsaken and gone to decay."
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Date: 1772
"On his worn Pallet, now, view him reclin'd; / Terrifick Visions haunt his tortur'd Mind."
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