 | Jedidiah Morse, Elijah Parish - New England - 1804 - 398 pages
...for, our errors in afting on such evidence ; we pray that we may be considered candidly and aright, by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion." Mr. Paris * who was active in the prosecution, and evidently a serious and conscientious man, in his... | |
 | 1814 - 548 pages
...guilt of it to ourselves, nor others. And we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion.' The statutes against witches however continued in force, and as late as 1716 Mrs. Hicks and her daughter,... | |
 | James Sabine - Church history - 1820 - 656 pages
...for, our errors in aeting on sueh evidenee ; we pray that we may be eonsidered eandidly and aright, by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion." — " They asked pardon for having brought the guilt of innoeent blood on the land." In this diseovery... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Elijah Parish - New England - 1820 - 332 pages
...for, our errors in acting on such evidence; we pray that we may be considered candidly and aright, by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion." Mr. Paris, who was active in the prosecution, and evidently a serious and conscientious man, in his... | |
 | United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...that we .were sadly deluded and mistaken : we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion." We read of nine old women being burnt at Kalisk, in Poland, charged with having bewitched and rendered... | |
 | Robert Calef - Witchcraft - 1823 - 324 pages
...guilt of it to ourselves, nor others; and we also pray that we may be considered candidly, and aright, by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with, and not experienced in, matters of that nature. " We do heartily ask forgiveness... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Explorers - 1823 - 428 pages
...for, our errours in acting on such evidence : we pray that we may be considered candidly and aright, by the living sufferers, as being then, under the power of a general and strong delusion." In one instance at least, a church, that of Danvers, which had excommunicated... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1825 - 450 pages
...for, our errours in acting on such evidence ; we pray that we may be considered candidly and aright, by the living sufferers, as being then, under the power of a general and strong delusion." In one instance at least, a church, that of Danvers, which had excommunicated... | |
 | John Neal - American literature - 1828 - 344 pages
...guilt of it to ourselves, nor others ; and we also pray that we may be considered candidly and nright, by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with, and not experienced in matters of that nature. "We do heartily ask forgiveness... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - History - 1831 - 302 pages
...guilt of it, to ourselves, nor others ; and we also pray that we may be considered candidly, and aright by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with, and not experienced in matters of that nature. ' We do heartily ask forgiveness... | |
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And we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with and not experienced in matters of that nature. 
