 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 pages
...inchantmcnt, or sorcery. To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word...a truth to which every nation in the world hath in it's turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws ; which... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1828 - 98 pages
...enlightened nations of the world. Mr. Justice Blackstone has not scrupled to declare, that to deny it ' is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word...various passages both of the Old and New Testament.' f I meddle not with this matter of controversial divinity. But it is certain, that from the earliest... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 pages
...witchcraft and sorcery." says Blackstone (Commentary on the Laws of England. B. iv., ch. 4, sec. 6), " is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word...world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by example* seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws ; which, at least, suppose the possibility... | |
 | John Brewster - 1830 - 602 pages
...believers even in this country. Two centuries have bility, nay actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word...nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, by either examples seemingly well attested, or prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility... | |
 | 1830 - 736 pages
...p. 60, Blackstone says : " To deny the possibility, nay actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word...of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testaments ; and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world has in its turn borne... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1831 - 302 pages
...strong terms : — ' To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is, at once, flatly to contradict the revealed word...turn, borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1831 - 316 pages
...nation in the world hath in its turn, borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.' It is related, in White's Natural History of Selborne, that the people of Tring, a market town of Hertfordshire,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...witchcraft and sorcery," says Blackslone (Commentary on the Laws of England, B.iv., ck. 4, sec. G), " is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word...itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hatb in its turn borne testimony, cither by example* seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1833 - 570 pages
...witchcraft and sorcery," says Blackstone (Commentary on the Laws of England. B. iv., ch. 4, sec. 6), " is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in varióos passages both of the Old and New Testament ; and the thing ilself is a truth to which every... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 pages
...witcheraft and sorcery," says Blackstone (Commentary on the Laws ot England, B. iv., ch 4, sec. 6), " is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word...passages both of the Old and New Testament ; and the thinit itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either... | |
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To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world... 
