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Read your own public journals. In the few cases that get into the newspapers, are there not instances of slain bodies found, and no murderers ever discovered? Multiply the cases that are reported by the cases that are NOT reported, and the bodies that are found by the bodies that are NOT found, and what conclusion do you come to? This.
I believe the instances have been rare when a bear has been known to attack a person, although it has happened in some cases; but the immigrant has so often listened to exaggerated accounts regarding the wild animals of America, that those who settle in a new section of country find it difficult to get rid of their fears. On one occasion when the Sabbath meeting met at Mr. Ainslie's house, Mrs.
This coffin and the ghostly one she took to be one and the same. Dr Levitt mentioned instances of superstition, which could scarcely have been believed by him, if related by another. "Do you know the Platts?" he inquired of Hope. "Have you seen the poor woman that lies ill there with her child?" "Yes: what a state of destitution they are in!"
But my long residence among the Indians, and the frequent instances in which I had known the intimations of dreams verified, occasioned me to think seriously of the horse the ghost had given me. Accordingly I went to the top of the hill, where I discovered tracks and other signs, and, following a little distance, found a horse, which I knew belonged to the trader I was going to see.
She opened it more from curiosity than from guidance this time, it must be observed at a chapter bearing on her own problem, 'The disciplina arcani, or, the doctrine of reserve. Here she read that there were plenty of apparent instances of this in Scripture, and that it was formed into a recognized system in the early Church.
But though this is true in principle, it is generally altogether impossible to work the Method of Agreement by negative instances without positive ones; it is so much more difficult to exhaust the field of negation than that of affirmation.
The way in which his simplicity of nature would manifest itself was, in some instances, most remarkable.
Some patients prevent nausea by constantly wearing a flannel bandage about the abdomen. Many instances of the vomiting of pregnancy cannot be explained by errors in diet, for the attacks come on repeatedly whether the stomach contains food or not. Under these circumstances mental influences frequently have to be reckoned with.
He told the young queen he doubted "she was little beholden to her education, that had given her no better information of the follies and iniquities of mankind; of which he presumed the climate from whence she came could have given more instances than this cold region would afford."
If he can kill full-grown sheep or vicunas, there is nothing remarkable about his doing the same for a child five or six years of age; and, indeed, it is certain that such instances have occurred. "Almost any eagles can do as much, and would, provided they were hungry, and children were left exposed in the neighbourhood of their haunts.
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