 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1716 - 588 pàgines
...appeared in thefe Children -, for he conceived, that thefe fwooning Fits were Natural, and nothing elfe but that they call the Mother, but only heightened to a great excefs by the fubtilty of the Devil, co-operating with the Malice of thefe which we term Witches, at... | |
 | 1853 - 678 pàgines
...early times, — from the days of Sir Thomas Brown, upon whose evidence that natural diseases ' were heightened to ' a great excess by the subtilty of the devil co-operating with ' the malice of these we term witches, at whose instance he doth ' these villanies," Sir Matthew Hale convicted two poor... | |
 | William Granger - 1805 - 648 pàgines
...BEFORE JUSTICE HALBj AT BURY ST. EDMONDS. 1609 that thefe fwooning fits were natural, and nothing elfe but that they call the mother, but only heightened to a great excefs by the fubtilty of the devil, co-operating with the malice of thefe which we term witches, at... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816 - 822 pàgines
...most subject to, as particularly appcnred in these children; for he conceived, that these swooning fits were natural, and nothing else but that they...mother, but only heightened to a great excess by the suhtilty of the devil, cooperating with the malice of these which we term witches, at whose instance... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pàgines
...pretended to be bewitched, and found that, when their eyes were covered, they played off their fits, 8tc. at the touch of some other person, whom they mistook...readers to Vulgar Errors, Book icx xi. ; B. vc xxii. § 19. and B. vii. c. xii. Very different was the conduct of Chief Justice Holt, nor are the obligations... | |
 | 1822 - 734 pàgines
...as particularly appeared in the children of Dorothy Dunent; for he conceived, that these swounding fits were natural, and nothing else but that they...with the malice of these which we term witches, at u-hose instance lie doth the villainies."* This at once decided the point, in the minds of all but... | |
 | Jonathan Duncan - 1825 - 274 pàgines
...most subject to, as particularly appeared in these children, for he conceived that these swooning (its were natural, and nothing else but that they call the mother, but only height* ened to a great excess by the subtilty of the devil, co-operating with the malice of these... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1836 - 602 pàgines
...subject to, — at particularly appeared in these children ; for he conceived, that these swooning fits were natural, and nothing else but that they...subtilty of the devil, co-operating with the malice of those which we term witches, at whose instance he doth these villanies." of the law which made witchcraft... | |
 | John Jay Smith - 1836 - 620 pàgines
...these children; for he conceived, that these swooning fits were natural, and nothing else than what they call the mother, but only heightened to a great excess by the subtlety of the devil, co-operating with the malice of these whom we term witches, at whose instance... | |
 | 1861 - 460 pàgines
...most subject to, as particularly appeared in these Children ; for he considered that these swooning Fits were Natural, and nothing else but that they...Witches, at whose instance he doth these Villanies." Such an argument as this was then held quite as pertinent and irresistible as would now be the evidence... | |
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... did, in an extraordinary manner, afflict them with such distempers as their bodies were most subject to, as particularly appeared in these children; for he conceived, that these... 
