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 summoned, detained, or recalled. The impression is sudden, and the effect often painful.

By the term, seems to be meant a mode of seeing, superadded to that which Nature generally bestows. In the it is called ; which signifies likewise a spectre, or a vision. I know not, nor is it likely that the Highlanders ever examined, whether by, used for , they mean the power of seeing, or the thing seen.

I do not find it to be true, as it is reported, that to the nothing is presented but phantoms of evil. Good seems to have the same proportions in those visionary scenes, as it obtains in real life: almost all remarkable events have evil for their basis; and are either miseries incurred, or miseries escaped. Our sense is so much stronger of what we suffer, than of