A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles / By Theophilus Insulanus [pseud.] [i.e. D. M'Leod].

  • Macleod, Donald, 1729?-1781.
Date:
1763
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Credit: A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles / By Theophilus Insulanus [pseud.] [i.e. D. M'Leod]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i The PREF A GES tiful ‘provifion made for man, | ‘of “what the earth ‘and fea can affoid, we find him diffi tisfied, and ftill itching after more. So true is it what Mr. Pope obferves. — - / sins ie The mind unquiet and confin’d at home, Refts and expatiates in a life to come. . - Moreover, as man is confidered poffeffed of fo many temporal enjoyments, can we ima- gine his happinefs terminates only in the fruition of this tranfitory life, fince he confifts of foul and body ? Man is confeffedly poffeffed of fundry ex- cellencies beyond the fowls of the air, the fihes of the fea, and the beafts of the field, and by being endued with reafon,’ is remar kably diftin- guished from all other animals in the operations of his mind, fo that he-can will freely, judge, and reflect upon objects” patt, prefent, and to come: Now, is it reafonable or’ credible to fup- pofe, that his bountiful Creator, who has fitted - - hinagut in foch’a liberal way, making him Lord -of all the inferior creation, for his conveniency, ufe, atid pleafure, fhould intend no other bene- fit* for this particular favourite, but what muft arife from the gratification of his fenfes, which as often minifter to his grief and ‘difappoint- ment ; and then, after a life offout or five-Ieore _ of years, at moft, drops into his’ grave, without “any more of him than of an afs that perifheth, exhaulted with want and Jabour? The foul of tae ae x