Transcriber’s Notes
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Please also see the note at the end of the book.
THEORY
OF
APPARITIONS.
AN
ESSAY
TOWARDS
A THEORY
OF
APPARITIONS.
BY
_JOHN FERRIAR, M. D._
A thousand fantasies
Begin to throng into my memory,
Of calling shapes, and beck’ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues, that syllable men’s names
On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound.
COMUS, 1. 205.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR CADELL AND DAVIES;
BY
J. AND J. HADDOCK,
WARRINGTON.
1813.
CONTENTS.
Page.
CHAPTER I. _Reality of spectral impressions--General
law of the system, to which they may
be referred--Division of the subject--Spectral
illusions exemplified_ 13