No. What is commonly called mesmerism could not do this; but there may be a power akin to mesmerism, and superior to itthe power that in the old days was called Magic. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain] Reference
No. What is commonly called mesmerism could not do this; but there may be a power akin to mesmerism, and superior to it -- the power that in the old days was called Magic. From Wordnik.com. [Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance] Reference
No. What is commonly called mesmerism could not do this; but there may be a power akin to mesmerism, and superior to it, -- the power that in the old days was called Magic. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
I have heard of such things at home; they are called mesmerism and clairvoyance. From Wordnik.com. [Rujub, the Juggler] Reference
But the repetitiveness of Seidel's autopilot rhythms is so grating: Seidel achieves a kind of mesmerism, but there's no range. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Soon the term 'mesmerism' was coined where Mesmer would use suggestion to cure illnesses. From Wordnik.com. [FXstreet.com] Reference
C. is a tradesman, middle-aged, has no tendency to mysticism or imaginative reverie -- knows nothing of 'mesmerism' or. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852] Reference
"mesmerism" has been practised from very ancient times. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
I reckon you must have some kind of mesmerism about you. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of the Dark] Reference
The case of Victor revolutionised the art of mesmerism. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Modern mesmerism is in part an effort in the same direction. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
"I have heard it said that there isn't any truth in mesmerism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island] Reference
I believe also in a certain mental mesmerism, which rarely fails. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference
She then experimented to some extent with mesmerism and clairvoyance. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
It was looking down at Trevor that saved her from the thing's mesmerism. From Wordnik.com. [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]
But mesmerism contained two things, -- a bold empirical practice and a mystical theory. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Science has its fads and crazes, like anything else: string theory, eugenics, mesmerism. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
I have in my thoughts the invention of ether-inhalation and the induction of trance in mesmerism. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
It was Braid, indeed, who caused the name of "hypnotism" to eject that of "mesmerism" in England. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
Two English Freemasons in the writer's presence had briefly mentioned mesmerism in Italian lodges. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
The way he could make them do things just out of sheer liking for him almost amounted to mesmerism. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Strategy in one respect resembles mesmerism -- the object operated upon must remain perfectly quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
In 1840 he began experimenting with mesmerism, and accounts of these experiments were published in the. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
First of all, even before you come in sight of your quarry, there is a strange battle, like mesmerism. From Wordnik.com. [The Fox] Reference
These men were students of mesmerism, of spiritualism, and my commonplace contradiction was not over welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
In conclusion, let me animadvert upon the injustice with which, to its own loss, society has treated mesmerism. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
In this manner I was less under the spell of the mesmerism of the snake, and could to some extent think and act. From Wordnik.com. [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference
The fascination by touch was simply mesmerism, or rather the biology of the present day, in an undeveloped stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
He was talking of it once to a man who was a sharp on things like mesmerism, and the man called it hypnotic suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
This, of course, made the struggle much easier for the opponents of mesmerism, but was largely the fault of the magnetizers. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
All this I admit to be the fever of the mind -- a waking dream -- an illusion to which mesmerism or magic is but a frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
A man with some knowledge of mesmerism, and living a life with good interests in it, could defy them: such a case has happened. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
This friend explained the theory and practice of mesmerism, and Frank soon found that he could also experimentalize successfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference
To himself he appeared to be largely extending the domain of mesmerism, of which he had, in truth, discovered and gone beyond the limits. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
It is but a limited number of persons who can be affected by mesmerism; and the good to be obtained from the process is proportionately limited. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
The use of mesmerism in nervous disorders, its use towards preventing suffering in surgical operations, have been denied and scoffed at in the teeth of positive evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Returning from serving at the siege of Gibraltar, this young officer found mesmerism the mode at Paris, and appears to have become, for no other reason, one of the initiated. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
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