Devotional Somnium, Or, a Collection of Prayers and Exhortations Uttered by Miss Rachel Baker: In the City of New-York, in the Winter of 1815, During Her Abstracted and Unconscious State: To Which Pious and Unprecedented Exercises Is Prefixed An
Devotional Somnium, Or, a Collection of Prayers and Exhortations Uttered by Miss Rachel Baker: In the City of New-York, in the Winter of 1815, During Her Abstracted and Unconscious State: To Which Pious and Unprecedented Exercises Is Prefixed An...
Title: Devotional somnium, or, A collection of prayers and exhortations uttered by Miss Rachel Baker: in the city of New-York, in the winter of 1815, during her abstracted and unconscious state: to which pious and unprecedented exercises is prefixed an account of her life, with the manner in which she became powerful in praise to God and addressed to man: together with a view of that faculty of the human mind which is intermediate between sleeping and waking: the facts attested by the most respectable divines, physicians, ...
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Title: Devotional somnium, or, A collection of prayers and exhortations uttered by Miss Rachel Baker: in the city of New-York, in the winter of 1815, during her abstracted and unconscious state: to which pious and unprecedented exercises is prefixed an account of her life, with the manner in which she became powerful in praise to God and addressed to man: together with a view of that faculty of the human mind which is intermediate between sleeping and waking: the facts attested by the most respectable divines, physicians, and literary gentlemen, and the discourses correctly noted by clerical stenographers.Author: Samuel L MitchillPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03852800CollectionID: CTRG02-B25PublicationDate: 18150101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 288 p., [1] leaf of plates: port
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New-York: Printed for the proprietor by Van Winkle and Wiley
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1815
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English
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Fair. Original binding. Split a spine center. Covers worn and faded. 288 p. Tear on p. 171-2. Includes (p. 25-105): An arrangement of those parts of the phenomena of the human mind which belong to the function of somnium, a state which is intermediate between waking and sleeping / by Samuel L. Mitchill. -Shaw et Shoemaker, 34568. Austin, Early Amer. medical imprints 660. "Previous utterances of Rachel Baker were published by Charles Mais in 1814 in his "The surprising case of Rachel Baker." "It is the extent of his pretensions to give to the public, a collection of classified and authenticated facts; most of which are at once new and indubitable. Some extracts are also reprinted from the works of distinguished men in relation to the cause or causes to which such facts are to be attributed...."-Introduction, p. 10. John H. Douglass, M.D. April 24, 1815,
