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
Then it asked him whether he did not know him? He answered, No; it
replied, I am such a one; the man answered he had been long dead; I have
been dead, said the spectre or ghost, seven years, and you know that I
lived a loose life, and ever since, I have been hurried up and down in a
restless condition with the company you saw, and shall be to the day of
judgment; then he proceeded to tell him, that had he acknowledged God in
his ways, he had not suffered such severe things by their means; and
farther said, you never prayed to God before that day you met with this
company in the fields.
This relation was sent to Dr. Henry More by Mr. E. Fowler, who said, Mr.
Greatrix told it several persons; the Lord Orrery also owned the truth
of it; and Mr. Greatrix told it to Dr. Henry More himself, who
particularly inquired of Mr. Greatrix about the man's being carried up
into the air, above men's heads, in the room, and he did expressly
affirm that he was an eye-witness thereof.
A vision which happened to the ingenious and learned Dr. Donne, may not
improperly be here inserted. Mr. Isaac Walton, writing the life of the
said doctor, tells us, that the doctor and his wife, living with Sir
Robert Drury, who gave them a free entertainment at his house in
Drury-lane, it happened that the Lord Haye was by King James sent in an
embassy to the French King, Henry IV., whom Sir Robert resolved to
accompany, and engaged Dr. Donne to go with them, whose wife was then
with child, at Sir Robert's house. Two days after their arrival at
Paris, Dr. Donne was left alone in that room in which Sir Robert and he
and some other friends had dined together. To this place Sir Robert
returned within half an hour; and as he left so he found Dr. Donne
alone, but in such an ecstacy, and so altered in his looks, as amazed
Sir Robert to behold him, insomuch that he earnestly desired Dr. Donne
to declare what had befallen him in the short time of his absence. To
which Dr. Donne was not able to make a present answer; but after a long
and perplexed pause, did at last say, I have seen a dreadful vision,
since I saw you; I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me, through this
room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her
arms; this I have seen since I saw you. To which Sir Robert replied,
Sure, sir, you have slept since I saw you, and this is the result of
some melancholy dream, which I desire you to forget, for you are now
awake. To which Dr. Donne's reply was, I cannot be surer that I now live
than that I have not slept since I saw you, and am as sure at her second
appearing she stopped and looked me in the face and vanished. Rest and
sleep had not altered Dr. Donne's opinion the next day; for he then
affirmed this vision with a more deliberate and so confirmed a
confidence, that he inclined Sir Robert to a faint belief that the
vision was true, who immediately sent a servant to Drury house, with a
charge to hasten back and bring him word whether Mrs.
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