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The Phantom World; or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.

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P. 127.

701

Now well known as the evening primrose.

702

Numquid dæmonium potest cœcorum oculos asperire? Joan. ix, 21.

703

Dom. Calmet has a very bad opinion of the public, to believe that it values so little what is, perhaps, the best and most sensible part of the book. Wise people think quite differently from himself.

704

Neither Gregory of Tours, nor Sulpicius Severus, nor Peter the Venerable, nor Pierre Damien, have ever been placed in a parallel line with the fathers of the Church. In regard to the latter, it has always been allowable, without failing in the respect which is due to them, to remark certain weaknesses in their works, sometimes even errors, as the Church has done in condemning the Millenaries, &c.

705

An excellent maxim for fomenting credulity and nourishing superstition.

706

What a parallel! how could any one make it without renouncing common sense?

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Jeremiah xxi. 21.

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Jerem. xxxvi.

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Jerem. xvii. 15.

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Isai. xxviii. 10.

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Tom. ii. p. 92 et seq.

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It is true that what Dom. Calmet had said of this in his first edition, the only one M. Lenglet has seen, has been corrected in the following ones.

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P. 155.

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A bad foundation; credulous or interested authors.

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