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Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2)

Sargent, Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius), 1786-1867· 3 chapters· 138,049 words

My earliest recollections of some, among the dead and buried aristocracy of Boston, find a ready embodiment, in cocked hats of enormous proportions, queues reaching to their middles, cloaks of scarlet broadcloth, lined with silk, and faced with velvet, and just so short, as to...

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1. VOLUME II.

My earliest recollections of some, among the dead and buried aristocracy of Boston, find a ready embodiment, in cocked hats of enormous proportions, queues reaching to their mid...

2. part ii., puts these words into the mouth of Cleomenes, when speaking to

Horatio, on the subject of his duel: "I saw you, that very morning, and you seemed to be sedate and void of passion: you could have no concern." Horatio replies--"It is silly to...

3. Book I., Chap. X. of his Pseudodoxia, he speaks, with deep contempt, of

_Necromancers_ are those, who pretend to a power of communing with the dead, that is, conjuring up spirits, and of consulting them, in regard to the affairs of this or the other...