Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions: Or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical CausesOliver & Boyd, 1825 - 475 من الصفحات |
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... Brain , 99 VIII . Spectral Illusions arising from a highly - excited State of Nervous Irritability acting generally on the System , IX . The Spectral Illusions of Hypochondriacks , X. Certain less frequent Morbid Sources of Spectral ...
... Brain , 99 VIII . Spectral Illusions arising from a highly - excited State of Nervous Irritability acting generally on the System , IX . The Spectral Illusions of Hypochondriacks , X. Certain less frequent Morbid Sources of Spectral ...
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... brain , a particular department of which formed its closet . This closet the Cartesians conceived to be situated in the pineal gland . The five Senses were regarded by the early meta- physicians as nothing more than " porters " to the ...
... brain , a particular department of which formed its closet . This closet the Cartesians conceived to be situated in the pineal gland . The five Senses were regarded by the early meta- physicians as nothing more than " porters " to the ...
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... brain , not only learned the forms of the outward things brought to " her " by the Senses , but was enabled to make still farther distinctions , in which she was greatly superior to Common Sense . Common Sense knew nothing but ...
... brain , not only learned the forms of the outward things brought to " her " by the Senses , but was enabled to make still farther distinctions , in which she was greatly superior to Common Sense . Common Sense knew nothing but ...
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... brain . Phantasy retained ob- jects brought by the Senses , examined more fully such species or ideas of objects as were perceived by Com- mon Sense , arranged them , recalled the ideas which Memory had stored up , and compounded all ...
... brain . Phantasy retained ob- jects brought by the Senses , examined more fully such species or ideas of objects as were perceived by Com- mon Sense , arranged them , recalled the ideas which Memory had stored up , and compounded all ...
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... brain . They were there apprised by Fancy of the forms of all objects , and of their good or ill quali- ty ; upon which they returned to the heart , the seat of the affections , with a corresponding report of what was going on . If the ...
... brain . They were there apprised by Fancy of the forms of all objects , and of their good or ill quali- ty ; upon which they returned to the heart , the seat of the affections , with a corresponding report of what was going on . If the ...
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الصفحة 45 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
الصفحة 139 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting...
الصفحة 190 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
الصفحة 461 - HAMLET. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel ? POLONIUS. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS. It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET. Or like a whale? POLONIUS. Very like a whale.
الصفحة 268 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
الصفحة 389 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
الصفحة 409 - Arms, and the dusty field, I less admire, And soften strangely in some new desire; Honour burns in me not so fiercely bright, But pale as fires when...
الصفحة 134 - Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but, in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their aery purposes, 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil.
الصفحة 139 - Therefore for spirits, I am so far from denying their existence, that I could easily believe that not only whole countries, but particular persons have their tutelary and guardian angels.
الصفحة 209 - Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it : and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment, which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it.