ecstatics

And yet the most sentimental of husbands must come down from his "ecstatics" so soon as the knot is tied; and then he soon enough finds out that the clever hands of a woman are worth far more than her bright glances; and if the shirt and pudding qualifications be absent, then woe to the unhappy man, and woe also to the unhappy woman!

Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858

Know, then, that I was in the saintly City of Jerusalem with certain ecstatics and inspired men, and did not magnify myself among them, for that Allah

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Fire-eaters and acrobats vied with the “Whirling Dervish” dances of Sufi ecstatics and the horseback shooting competitions of the thousands of curious Bedouin who had camped outside the city.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Fire-eaters and acrobats vied with the “Whirling Dervish” dances of Sufi ecstatics and the horseback shooting competitions of the thousands of curious Bedouin who had camped outside the city.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

But this must be so, because religious belief works as memory, not as to-hand experience … or at least not as this latter for most people ecstatics and schizophrenics excepted, I mean.

Religion and memory Adam Roberts Project 2007

Fire-eaters and acrobats vied with the “Whirling Dervish” dances of Sufi ecstatics and the horseback shooting competitions of the thousands of curious Bedouin who had camped outside the city.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Intoxication steeps you in fantastic imaginings every whit as strange as those of ecstatics.

The Magic Skin 2007

But this must be so, because religious belief works as memory, not as to-hand experience … or at least not as this latter for most people ecstatics and schizophrenics excepted, I mean.

Archive 2007-07-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

The essay seems to get back on course when Montaigne begins talking about religious ecstatics and miracles and visions as being mainly derived “from the power of the imagination acting mainly on the more impressionable souls of the common people.”

Montaigne’s Imagination « So Many Books 2004

Bodily elongation seems straight out of Alice in Wonderland, yet testimony deposed under oath states that the bodies of ecstatics become elongated, shrink, and are morphed in ways we normally deem physically impossible.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004