The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell : $b a gentleman, who, tho' deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger's name at first sight, with their future contingencies of fortune
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The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell : $b a gentleman, who, tho' deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger's name at first sight, with their future contingencies of fortune
Campbell, Duncan, 1680?-1730; Deaf people -- Great Britain -- Biography; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Prophets -- Great Britain -- Biography
Secondly, as to the ignominious death that Irwin came to, and which he
predicted to his mother so long before, when she was in flourishing
circumstances, and when there was no appearance that any of her children
should be brought to a beggarly condition, and learn among base gangs of
company to thieve, and be carried to the gallows; the story told in this
chapter of some of the inhabitants of Harris, sailing round the Isle of
Skye, and seeing the apparition of two men hanging by the ropes on the
mast of their vessel, and when they came to the opposite mainland,
finding two criminals just sentenced to death by Sir Donald Macdonald,
and seeing their own very mast and ropes made choice of for their
execution, clears up the manner how Mr. Campbell might predict this of
Irwin likewise, by the force of the second-sight.
Thirdly, as to Mr. Campbell's telling Christallina the belle and chief
toast of the court, and Urbana the reigning beauty of the city, that
they should shortly be married, and who were to be their husbands, it is
a thing he has done almost every day in his life to one woman or other,
that comes to consult him about the man she is to be married to; the
manner he probably takes in doing this may be likewise explained by the
foregoing story in this chapter about the servants, who said they saw
three men standing by the left hand of their master's daughter; and that
he that was nearest would marry her first, whom they plainly and exactly
described, though they had never seen him but in their vision, as
appeared afterwards. For within some months after, the very man
described did come to the house, and did marry her. Vide the eighth
observation of the second-sight.
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