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Cock Lane and Common-Sense

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179

S. P. R., x. 81.

180

London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1877.

181

Quoted by Dr. Carpenter, op. cit., p. vii.

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Tom. ii. pp. 312, 435, edition of 1768.

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In the Quarterly Review, vol. cxxxi. pp. 336-337, Dr. Carpenter criticises an account given by Lord Crawford of this performance. He asks for the evidence of the other witnesses. This was supplied. He detects a colloquial slovenliness in a phrase. This was cleared up. He complains that the light was moonlight. ‘The moon was shining full into the room.’ A minute philosopher has consulted the almanack and denies that there was any moon!

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Lord Crawford’s evidence is in the Report of the Dialectical Society, p. 214

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Quarterly Review, vol. cxxxi. p. 303.

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Observe the caution of the Mosstrooper, even in that agitating moment! How good it is, and how wonderfully Sir Walter forecasts a séance.

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Lucretius, iv. 26-75, Munro’s translation.

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Def. Orac., 19.

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Ibid., iv. 193.

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Porphyry, Vita Plotini.

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Primitive Culture, i. 404.

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In the Pandemonium, or Devil’s Cloyster, of Richard Bovet, Gent. (1684).

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