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whether the facts be true or false, have no-thing inconsistent in the telling. For thofospirits may, upon some important occasions,be licensed so to affect the sensory, accord-ing to the exigency of the affair, that all 1the scene of vision, which is then thoughtto have an existence from without, may bethe effect of impressions made on the brainonly. Thus, for instance, that apparitionmentioned before, which Plutarch tells uswas offered to Brutus , before he came overfrom Asa, and came again to him the nightbefore the battle of Philippi ; which is theredescribed as a dreadfulspeSlre, of a monjlrousand ugly appearance ; and that noise which heheard as of one entering his tent; and thefiwords, it is said to have spoke to him. “ I" am, O Brutus, thy evil Genius; but thoU“ shalt fee me again near Philippi (q) •”

(q) Brutus was sitting in his tent, musing, and con-sidering something with himself, when he thought heheard some body entering ; and upon looking about hesaw oiAhoKolov o'l'W exfpuAa cufActlot, tria&y

vu^u-tos oivru- and asking unconcernedly, WhatBeing it was, God or Man-, and what it wanted with'him? The spectre answered* o co;, w Sotlumno's o<^ei J'i jM nig

might