Discovery of Witches: The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
‹
›
- Browse Category
We Begin at the EndLearn More - Choice Picks
- Top 100 Free Books
- Blog
- Recently Added
- Submit your eBook
By Thomas Potts
14 Feb, 2019
FROM THE INTRODUCTION.....Were not every chapter of the history of the human mind too precious an inheritance to be willingly relinquished,—for appalling as its contents may be, the value of the materials it may furnish may be inestimable,—we mig
... Read more
FROM THE INTRODUCTION.....Were not every chapter of the history of the human mind too precious an inheritance to be willingly relinquished,—for appalling as its contents may be, the value of the materials it may furnish may be inestimable,—we might otherwise be tempted to wish that the miserable record in which the excesses occasioned by the witch mania are narrated, could be struck out of its pages, and forever canceled. Most assuredly, he, who is content to take the fine exaggeration of the author of Hydriotaphia as a serious and literal truth, and who believes with him that "man is a glorious animal," must not go to the chapter which contains that record for his evidences and proofs. If he should be in search of materials for humiliation and abasement, he will find in the history of witchcraft in this country, from the beginning to the end of the seventeenth century, large and abundant materials, whether it affects the species or the individual. In truth, human nature is never seen in worse colours than in that dark and dismal review. Childhood, without any of its engaging properties, appears prematurely artful, wicked and cruel; woman, the victim of a wretched[iv] and debasing bigotry, has yet so little of the feminine adjuncts, that the fountains of our sympathies are almost closed; and man, tyrannizing over the sex he was bound to protect, in its helpless destitution and enfeebled decline, seems lost in prejudice and superstition and only strong in oppression. If we turn from the common herd to the luminaries of the age, to those whose works are the landmarks of literature and science, the reference is equally disappointing;—
"The sun itself is dark
And silent as the moon
Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." Less
- File size
- Print pages
- Publisher
- Publication date
- Language
- ISBN
- 488.944 KB
- 316
- Public Domain Books
- 2017-05-25
- English
- 978-1374904187
Author
Related Books
A Short History of Scotland:
The Noble and Gentle Men of England:
The Story of Rouen:
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account:
A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 and 1776:
The Story of Perugia:
Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson:
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey:
History of Witchcraft in England From 1558 to 1718, 1911:
The Surrender of Napoleon: Being the Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte, and of His Residence on Board H. M.S. Bellerophon, With a Detail of the ... The 24th of May and the 8th of Augus:
Berlin: Panorama Einer Weltstadt:
Granada : Poema Oriental, 1: Precedido De La Leyenda De Al-Hamar:
Cham et Japhet, ou De l'émigration des nègres chez les blancs considérée comme moyen providentiel de régénérer la race nègre et de civiliser l'Afrique intérieure:
Pagan and Christian Rome:
The Story of London:
Eve of the French Revolution:
The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain: Volume 1:
King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855:
.jpg){kind=logo}
Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte:
A Short History of Wales:
British Popular Customs:
Venice and Its Story:
German Culture Past and Present:
The history of the Netherlands:
.jpeg){kind=logo}
The Story of Nuremberg (Medieval Towns Series):
Join us and get access to all your favourite books
It’s free
