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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select Sholto and Reuben
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Neither, said the other, but it is for this very thing 1 would he were condemned. I can go no where but I hear of Aristides the Just. Aristides enquired no farther, but took the shell, and wrote his name in it as desired.
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Neither, said the other, but it is for this very thing 1 would he were condemned. I can go no where but I hear of Aristides the Just. Aristides enquired no farther, but took the shell, and wrote his name in it as desired.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
370 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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Sholto Percy
151 booksJoseph Clinton Robertson (c.1787–1852), pseudonym Sholto Percy, was a Scottish patent agent, writer and periodical editor.
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I sometimes conversed with my physician and my wife concerning the phantoms which at the time hovered round me. For in general the forms appeared oftener in motion than at rest. They did not always continue, they frequently left me altogether, and again appeared for a short or a long space of time, singly or more at once but, in general, several appeared together. For the most part, I saw human figures of both sexes they commonly passed to and fro, as if they had no connexion with each other, like people at a fair, where all is bustle; sometimes they appeared as if they had business with one another._ Once or twice I saw among them persons on horseback, and dogs and birds these figures all appeared to me in their natural size, as distinctly as if they had existed in real life, with the several tints on the un covered parts of the body, and with all the different kinds and colours of clothes. But I think, however, that the colours were some what paler than they are in nature.
None of the figures had any distinguished characteristic; they were neither terrible, ludicrous, nor repulsive; most of them were ordinary in their appearance; some were even agreeable.
I sometimes conversed with my physician and my wife concerning the phantoms which at the time hovered round me. For in general the forms appeared oftener in motion than at rest. They did not always continue, they frequently left me altogether, and again appeared for a short or a long space of time, singly or more at once but, in general, several appeared together. For the most part, I saw human figures of both sexes they commonly passed to and fro, as if they had no connexion with each other, like people at a fair, where all is bustle; sometimes they appeared as if they had business with one another._ Once or twice I saw among them persons on horseback, and dogs and birds these figures all appeared to me in their natural size, as distinctly as if they had existed in real life, with the several tints on the un covered parts of the body, and with all the different kinds and colours of clothes. But I think, however, that the colours were some what paler than they are in nature.
None of the figures had any distinguished characteristic; they were neither terrible, ludicrous, nor repulsive; most of them were ordinary in their appearance; some were even agreeable.
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