For a Ghost Hunter or Psychical Researcher would not venture to publish a modern ghost story (except for mere amusement), if he had it not at first hand, or at second hand with corroboration at first hand.
Joseph Glanvill, who could also tell strange tales at first hand, and from his own experience.
It is accepted as malignant or beneficent, and is construed in the terms of personality that are familiar to all men at first hand,--the terms known to all men by first-hand knowledge of their own acts.
It is the intention of the person to reveal it at first hand, by way of mouth, to yourself.
At first hand, from the first or original source; without the intervention of any agent.
There is no reason to suppose that either of these authors had ever seen a Hun, or had his information at first hand.
Greek literature, unfortunately, it was impossible for him to know at first hand.
Whenever possible the living animals and plants in their natural habitat, forces as applied in the machinery of neighboring institutions, and minerals in their successive processes of development and refinement are studied at first hand.
At the writer's suggestion, Mr. Anderson made a trip abroad for the purpose of studying the system at first hand.
Footnote 3: i added above the line, apparently by first hand.
There is a considerable propriety in restricting it to this meaning; or, at all events, in treating the art of becoming wise through reading, as different from the arts of observing facts at first hand.
Proportion of book-reading to Observation at first hand.
As to putting us in the position of listening to the Bible authors at first hand, we should trust more to the erudition of a Pusey or an Ewald, than to the unassisted judgment of a Locke.
This is the story as I get it first hand, from the Warden himself.
So by permission of the authorities and with your help, I am coming here to learn what I can at first hand.
No civilised man should ever be out of touch with it at first hand.
I was a much younger man than he, and I had not, as he had, come into personal contact with the problems of practical administration at first hand, but had been accustomed to see them and deal with them rather as abstractions.
The qualities of heart and head, which I have described, were not learned by me through Mr. Chamberlain's public form, but through a close study at first hand.
But I soon found I could move at more ease, by giving the narrative at first hand.
Books and reading are distasteful, for the very soul and body cry out for a more active, objective life, and to know nature and man at first hand.
It is everywhere overborne by a keen interest in life, by a desire to know the world at first hand, while susceptibilities are at their height.
I shall confine myself for this purpose to what he states at first hand in his capacity as an eyewitness, and to two salient cases which may be taken to represent the whole.
No man who has studied agricultural conditions at first hand in France, for example, will deny the fact that even thin, sterile soil can be made productive.
She had listened to them, at first hand, from the more radical statesman who preached them in and out of season.
He displayed, too, for Lady Pomfret’s benefit, a remarkable fund of Arcadian lore, that intimate knowledge of wild birds and beasts gained at first hand.
Rosalie Morton, the leading woman doctor and surgeon of New York, who also studied this subject at first hand, agrees with me that the war tasks have improved the health of the European women.
I felt quite equal to writing six books a year if any one would publish them, besides studying life at first hand as persistently and deeply as the present state of society will permit in the case of a mere woman.
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