Strange Visitors: A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance stateHorn, Henry J.
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Strange Visitors: A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance state
Horn, Henry J.
Spirit writings
She has, through the exercise of her genius, erected a beautiful villa
upon a southern island, wherein she has displayed her poetic taste to
advantage. There, in the midst of a luxuriant garden, she resides with
her beautiful Angelo, a child of graceful form who was washed ashore
from the sad wreck years ago, but now approaching the years of manhood,
and in his looks the very personification of a young Mercury, blending
the fire and passion of a Southern nature with the zeal and activity of
the Northern.
Count Ossoli and his noble wife tear themselves away from the pleasures
of this delightful state of existence and devote their sacred energies
to the enfranchisement of Italy.
No Roman patriot, neither Garibaldi nor any of his compeers, equals
them in their efforts for the freedom of that sunny land.
Madame Ossoli is sanguine of success.
Defeat she considers merely the plough and harrow for the ripe harvest
of victory which will follow.
From her own eloquent lips I have heard her address to the Italian
soldiers who, defeated and killed, marched to the spirit land.
She told them how she, in the midst of her new-born joy, in sight of
her own native land, fought the fierce battle of the briny waves, and
felt as she sat dying on the sinking wreck, that all she had striven
for was in vain; how she had found that defeat, that engulping billow,
had proved in the end a victory, and had placed her where she could
watch over the destiny of Italia, her adopted country, and work for its
regeneration, and fight for its liberty, as she could not have done had
she been more successful in her plans on earth.
Another American woman, of less note, but also a reformer, is Eliza
Farnham. She is not so emotional, has less sentiment and considerable
originality, and is honest in her opinions and determined in her
efforts to uplift her sex and ameliorate their condition.
She wields a powerful influence over a certain clique in the spirit
world and on earth, and therefore deserves to be noticed among the
women of the times. In person she is of dark complexion, with black
hair and eyes, and strongly-marked brows, possessing much vivacity and
caustic wit.
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