 | William Harris - 1814 - 458 pages
...carkas be at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it will gush out of blood, as if the blood were crying to the heaven, for revenge of the murtherer : God having appointed that, secret supernatural sign, for trial of that secret unnatural crime : so that it appears that God hath appointed... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 470 pages
...thereof: the other is their fleeting on the water : for, as in a secret murther, if the dead carkas be at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it will gush out of blood, as if the blood were crying to the heaven for revenge of the murtherer : God having appointed... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 pages
...carkasse bee at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it will gush out of blood, as if the blood were crying to the heaven for revenge of the murtherer, God having appointed * Discoverie of Witchcraft, book iii. chap. 1, 2. pp. 40 — 42. f Works apud Winton, pp. 112, 113.... | |
 | 1819 - 950 pages
...is,'' he tells us, " their fleeting on the water: for as in a secret inurl her, if the dead carkasse bee at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it will gush out of blood, as if the blood were crying to the heaven for revenge of the murtherer, God having appointed... | |
 | David Webster - 1820 - 210 pages
...thereof; the other is their fleeting on the water, for as in a secret murther, if the dead carkasse be at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it...secret supernaturall signe for triall of that secret unnatural crime, so it appeares that God hath appointed (for a supernatural signe of the monstrous... | |
 | David Webster - 1820 - 202 pages
...thereof; the other is their fleeting on the water, for as in a secret murther, if the dead carkasse be at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it...of the murtherer, God having appointed that secret supernatural! signe for triall of that secret unnatural crime, so it appeares that God hath appointed... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...assigns an ingenious reason for the trial by water : " For, as in a secret murther, if the dead carkasse bee at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer,...signe, for triall of that secret unnaturall crime, so it appeares that God hath appointed (for a supernaturall signe of the monstrous impietie of witches)... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...thereof; the other is their floating in the water. For, as in a secret murder, if the dead carkass be at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer it will gush out blood; so it appears, that God hath appointed (fora supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches)... | |
 | Thomas Gaspey - 1824 - 372 pages
...depositing it where it was found. ' -CHAP. XV. For, as in a secret murther, if the dead carkass be at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it will gush out of blond, as if the blond were crying to heaven for revenge of the murtherer. God having appointed that... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1831 - 302 pages
...witches could not weep, in rather a curious manner ; ' For as in a secret murther, if the dead carkasse bee at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer,...signe, for triall of that secret unnaturall crime, so it appeares that God hath appointed (for a supernaturall signe of the monstrous impietie of witches,)... | |
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... in a secret murther, if the dead carkas be at any time thereafter handled by the murtherer, it will gush out of blood, as if the blood were crying to the heaven, for revenge of the murtherer... 
