The Magic Staff: An Autobiography of Andrew Jackson Davis ...B. Marsh, 1867 - 552 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
A. J. Davis ain't ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS answer asked beautiful began behold believe Brother Davis called cause CHAPTER circumstances clairvoyant dark dear reader divine earth Eliza eternal exclaimed existence experience expression eyes fact father fear feel felt Fishbough happiness harmony hear heard heart heaven Hence hour human Hyde Park impressions inquired interior intuitionally intuitions Jackson Joseph Lancaster Julia Ann lectures letter Levingston living look Magic Staff magnetic marriage ment mental mind morning mother Mount Beauty mountain Mountain of Power nature never night nothin once operator person positive Poughkeepsie present principle question relation remember replied returned Santa Claus scribe seemed seen sister skeptical somethin somnambulic soon soul sphere spirit superior condition suppose sympathy tell things thou thought tion true truth Twas vision voice walked weeks what's wisdom woman words young
Popular passages
Page 19 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 69 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 500 - These wait their doom, from that great law Which makes the past time serve to-day ; And fresher life the world shall draw From their decay.
Page 213 - The outworn rite, the old abuse, The pious fraud transparent grown, The good held captive in the use Of wrong alone...
Page 273 - Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span, Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.
Page 88 - And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 454 - Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands ; The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages, that lead to nothing.
Page 197 - Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty, nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full and deny thee, and say, who is the Lord? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 236 - ... a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness...
Page 550 - Davis" and, sir, the decree of the court further is — "that it shall be lawful for the said plaintiff to marry again as if the defendant was actually dead; but it shall not be lawful for the said defendant to marry again until the said plaintiff is actually dead.