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" It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 21
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1871 - 426 pages
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 21

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1922 - 462 pages
...it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it."" He consented to investigate the Cock-Lane Ghost in the spirit of Chaucer's alchemist, the Chanouns...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 21

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - American literature - 1922 - 400 pages
...it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it ; but all belief is for it."17 He consented to investigate the Cock-Lane Ghost in the spirit of Chaucer's alchemist, the Chanouns...
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Essays in Satire

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - Satire - 1928 - 296 pages
...it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it, but all belief is for it. He said, John Wesley's conversation is good." Naturally the reader is at a loss to follow the transition...
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Shakespeare, what He Means to You

Nathan Kaufman - 1928 - 176 pages
...it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it." And the genial old philosopher when he thus spoke, may have been reminded of the dialogue between the...
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Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

James Houran, Rense Lange - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2001 - 344 pages
...it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. —Samuel Johnson, 3 April 1778, related by his friend James Boswell (1999) in Boswell's Life of Johnson....
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 33

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1874 - 820 pages
...and of souls dwelling on or below or above the earth in a spirit-world, where existence is modeled upon the earthly life, or raised to higher glory,...retribution for life, determined in a judgment after death." (ii, 21.) The place of existence too is almost as definite in savage theology as the existence itseli...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1920 - 784 pages
...it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it, but all belief is for it.' (Vol. iii. p. 230.) materialised spirit, yet he lent an ear to Cave's story that he had seen a ghost,...
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