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things that human wisdom could not foresee.'
editor of the eighteenth century excised all the scene of Mrs.
witness. Donne, a man of imagination, was, he tells us, in a
dinner. The story is, by Walton's admission, at second.html">second hand.
is 'not evidential.' Walton explains it, if true, as a result
is content that every man should have his own opinion. In the
did seem to speak to many of this family' (the Wottons) 'in
both in foretelling things to come, and discovering things
were robbing the University chest at Oxford. He mentioned
arriving just after the robbery, led to the discovery of the
in general with perfect sobriety and clearness. His tales of
Walton cannot fairly be called 'superstitious,' granting the
curious comment.
To that cruel superstition of his age, witchcraft, I think
is his account of Donne's preparation for death.html">death.html">death
he brought with him into that place his winding-sheet in his
on him, and so tied with knots at his head and feet, and his
shrouded and put into their coffin or grave. Upon this urn he
turned aside as might show his lean, pale, and death-like
he expected the second coming of his and our Saviour Jesus.
picture was fully finished, he caused it to be set by his
death.'
'That body, which once was a temple of the Holy Ghost, is now
it reanimated.'
assured believer, and to his mind, the world offered no
poet whom he quotes:-
Owes to his country his religion;
Had but his nurse or mother taught him so.'
differences between Rome and Anglicanism, it is manifest that
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