‘You might just as well,’ continued she, ‘praise the carvings upon a Wycherley comb, so carefully preserved by the collectors of old china and such gimcracks.’

[B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.

For, from my most careful observation, such as it is, I have concluded, that a purely sympathetic disease of any part, has no accedent symptoms, no Epiphaenomena, no Epigenomena;

Ne any liv'd on ground that durst withstand His dreadfull heast