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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    / Mi Tas PR TE FA CHE: culation aind practice, that are repugnant to re- ceived principles, facred and profane, and un- happily adopted, in every age, under the fpeci- - ons vail of Free-thinking. To conclude this long Preface, I am perfuaded the hypothefis I Lave chofen, will not only very much ruffle the contemptible race of mortals, who affume to _ themfelves the boafted privilege of free-thinking, of whom there is no great hopes; but will alfo be againft the vitiated tafte of the gay and youth- ful, who, having fwallowed large draughts of the enchanting pleafures of fin, are not yet in the © humour to be weaned from their favourite cri. minal purfuits, tho’ at the hazard of lofing infi- nitely more than they gain: But as the latter may not have declared themfelves of the fame kidney with abandoned latitudinarians, there is {till good hopes, when Paffion fubfides with in- | creafing years, and Reafon gains her fovereign- ty, they will open their eyes to read, and con- © fider what is meant; and, by the blefling of Gop, may be a help, while they are in the body, to . make peace with their Creator, before the cur- tain be drawn, and they launch cut into the world of fpirits. | There is, (1 am -afraid), more ill-nature in . -mankind, than of charity, efpecially in thofe who fet up for critics, which pcfibly may. dif pofe fome who bear no gcod-will to my hype. _ thes