A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles / By Theophilus Insulanus [pseud.] [i.e. D. M'Leod].

  • Macleod, Donald, 1729?-1781.
Date:
1763
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Credit: A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles / By Theophilus Insulanus [pseud.] [i.e. D. M'Leod]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his al] faperintending Providence, it is our intereft of greateft importance, to fit and prepare burfelves in this life, which is fo foon to end; that we may die the death of the righteous, which is natural for all men to defire, unlefs, from a ftoical apathy, we fup- and fear, Copy, Letter from the Author, in anfwer to one from a Clergyman ; which is iid Sal in gremio, «¢ Reverend Sir, OUR favour of the iff of May I received, and had the pleafure therein to fee, that you have got the better, at leaft a truce from_the ftub- born pain in your hand, which diftrefled you fo long; and obliged the wide circle of your «friends, inftead of improving as ufual, by the produétion of your quill, to turn their thoughts, and. confine themfelves, to the melancholy theme of condoling your fituation, and lamenting, in vain, fo generala lofs to the commoa-wealth of letters, which feemed to ftand in defiance of all remedies. The compli- ments you are pleafed to make me in the beginning and other paflages of your moft elegant letter, I muft confider as the refult of partiality, and the overflowings of a breaft poffeft of the pureft friend- fhip, and moft extenfive benevolence. Indeed, the progrefs you have made in the belles lettres, learn- ed languages, and more efpecially in your own pro- vince as a divine, would render it an arduous un- dertaking in me to oppole your fentiments on any proble- e.