Show Excerpt e useless, therefore the gold raises them before the resurrection. Mr. Addison's charming Essay, in the Spectator, is so applicable and prefatory to a work of this nature, that we cannot resist inserting that inimitable production in his own words. "Going to dine," says he, "with an old acquaintance, I had the misfortune to find his whole family very much dejected. Upon asking him the occasion of it, he told me that his wife had dreamt a strange dream the night before, which they were afraid portended some misfortune to themselves or to their children. At her coming into the...

In the early part of my life, having read many books in favour of Ghosts and Spectral A ppear- ances, the recollection remained so strong in Illy mind, that, for years after, the dread of phantoms bore irresistible sway. This dread continued tilI about my twenty-third year, when the following simple affair fully convinced me, how necessary it was to investigate everything that tended to be supernatural. About this period, I had apartments in a large old-fashioned country mansion. From my bed- chamber was a secret door leading to a private staircase, which communicated with some of the, lower...