The Power of the Soul Over the Body: Considered in Relation to Health and MoralsHarper & brothers, 1848 - 270 páginas |
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50 cents abstrac abstraction according action active affection appears asso association attention awake beautiful become bodily body brain cause CHAPTER child Christian circumstances connection consciousness constituted dancing mania death disease disorder divine dreams effort electric eel emotion employed endowed enjoyment eternal excited exercise exhibit existence experience extra gilt facts faculties faith feel habit heart Hence Hippocrates human ideas imagination impressions individual influence insanity intellect intelligence interest kind knowledge Laura Bridgman light manifest manner memory ment mental mind moral Mount Ararat muscles Muslin narrative nature nerves nervous system ness obedience objects observation operation organization passions perceive perfect persons philosopher phrenology physical pleasure possess present produced proper prove purpose reason recollection regard relation rendered sensation senses sight SIR JOHN BARROW sleep somnambulism soul spirit Street Madison sympathy things thought tion true truth turbed uncon York Courier
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Página 124 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Página 18 - Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus...
Página 37 - At this time, I was so fortunate as to hear of the child, and immediately hastened to Hanover to see her. I found her with a well-formed figure ; a strongly-marked, nervoussanguine temperament ; a large and beautifully-shaped head ; and the whole system in healthy action.
Página 139 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Página 43 - In her intellectual character it is pleasing to observe an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and a quick perception of the relations of things. In her moral character, it is beautiful to behold her continual gladness, her keen enjoyment of existence, her expansive love, her unhesitating confidence, her sympathy with suffering, her conscientiousness, truthfulness, and hopefulness.
Página 174 - And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Página 121 - When they expressed their astonishment, he told them, " that as he lay in bed, all visible objects shut out, the pictures of what he had seen in the East continually floated before his mind's eye, so that it was no wonder he could speak of them as if he had seen them yesterday. With like vividness the deep intense sky of Asia, with its brilliant and twinkling host of stars, which he had so often gazed at by night, or its lofty vault of blue by day, was reflected, in the hours of stillness and darkness,...
Página 121 - When old, blind, and so infirm that he was able only to be carried from his bed to his chair, he used to describe to his friends the scenes which he had visited in his early days with wonderful minuteness and vivacity. When they expressed their astonishment, he told them, " that as he lay in bed, all visible objects shut out, the pictures of what he had seen in the East continually floated before his mind's eye, so that it was no wonder he could speak of them as if he had seen them yesterday.
Página 39 - When left alone, she seems very happy if she have her knitting or sewing, and will busy herself for hours; if she have no occupation, she evidently amuses herself by imaginary dialogues, or by recalling past impressions; she counts with her fingers, or spells out names of things which she has recently learned, in the manual alphabet of the deaf mutes.
Página 39 - It has been ascertained, beyond the possibility of doubt, that she cannot see a ray of light, cannot hear the least sound, and never exercises her sense of smell, if she has any. Thus her mind dwells in darkness and stillness, as profound as that of a closed tomb at midnight.