mesmerists in a sentence

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1. In 1890 " Mesmerist, a Novel " was published in London, and during the years 1890-92 three papers by Oliphant on " The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher " appeared in " Englische Studien ", Leipzig.
2. After the Napoleons'overthrow, the new generation of practitioners of mesmerists ( and later of hypnotists ) looked to Puys�gur as their patriarch, and came to accept his method of inducing a sleeping trance in preference to the original methods of Mesmer.
3. One such friend and colleague of Blake was Richard Cosway whose studio on Stafford Street was renamed as Cosway Street . " Cosway was not only a famous and fashionable painter; he was also a mesmerist and magician who practised arcana related to alchemical and cabbalistic teaching.
4. In the later years of his life he had thrown himself into the hands of the mesmerists, and his work on the " Truths contained in Popular Superstitions " is an ably written exposition of his views regarding the supposed cause of mesmeric and kindred phenomena.
5. Also influenced by artificial somnambulism was the religion of New Thought, founded by the American Mesmerist Phineas P . Quimby ( 1802 1866 ) and which revolved around the concept of " mind over matter ", believing that illness and other negative conditions could be cured through the power of belief.
6. Matilda was said to have a wonderful faculty of telling fortunes, when she pleased, and remarkable powers as a mesmerist, both qualities being explained by the assertion that they were handed down to her as the eldest daughter in the Stanley family, and were secrets possessed by her alone.
7. Braid adopted the term "'hypnotism "'( which specifically applied to the state of the subject, rather than techniques applied by the operator ) to contrast his own, unique, subject-centred, approach with those of the operator-centred mesmerists who preceded him.
8. Given Wakley's implacable opposition to Elliotson, it is not surprising that, from time to time, " " The Lancet " continued to fulminate against the mesmerists " maintaining that " all those connected with " The Zoist " were'lepers', and doctors who practised mesmerism, traitors & ".
9. Anthony Lane of " The New Yorker " wrote in a review for the film, " Von Trier is not so much a filmmaker as a misanthropic mesmerist, who uses movies to bend the viewer to his humorless will, " while Josh Kun of the " Los Angeles Times " added, " Trier gets lost in his own rhetoric ."
10. They investigated the practices of a disaffected student of Mesmer, one Charles d'Eslon ( 1750 1786 ), and though they concluded that Mesmer's results were valid, their placebo-controlled experiments using d'Eslon's methods convinced them that mesmerism was most likely due to belief and imagination rather than to an invisible energy ( " animal magnetism " ) transmitted from the body of the mesmerist.