Curiosities of Medical ExperienceR. Bentley, 1839 - 566 páginas |
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... the traveller who , according to the well - known story , ordered oysters for his horse for the purpose of clearing the fireside . 38 ECSTATIC EXALTATION . THIS rapturous excitement is not unfrequently VOICE AND SPEECH . 37.
... the traveller who , according to the well - known story , ordered oysters for his horse for the purpose of clearing the fireside . 38 ECSTATIC EXALTATION . THIS rapturous excitement is not unfrequently VOICE AND SPEECH . 37.
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John Gideon Millingen. 38 ECSTATIC EXALTATION . THIS rapturous excitement is not unfrequently the pro- vince of the physician . Fortunately perhaps for the patient , it is an incurable malady , illustrating the lines of Dryden , There is ...
John Gideon Millingen. 38 ECSTATIC EXALTATION . THIS rapturous excitement is not unfrequently the pro- vince of the physician . Fortunately perhaps for the patient , it is an incurable malady , illustrating the lines of Dryden , There is ...
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... excitement of these intelligent creatures had been carried to such an extent that further experiments were deemed dangerous . The associations produced by national airs , and illustrated by the effect of the Rans des Vaches upon the ...
... excitement of these intelligent creatures had been carried to such an extent that further experiments were deemed dangerous . The associations produced by national airs , and illustrated by the effect of the Rans des Vaches upon the ...
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... excitement , and render them more liable to those terri- fic impressions that constitute the disease . These terrors , from false notions of the Deity , make them anticipate in this world the sufferings denounced in the next . One woman ...
... excitement , and render them more liable to those terri- fic impressions that constitute the disease . These terrors , from false notions of the Deity , make them anticipate in this world the sufferings denounced in the next . One woman ...
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... excitement . " From the foregoing observations we may venture to conclude , that an individual who gives credence to apparitions will also believe in the incarnation of the devil . In both cases we infer that spiritual beings can assume ...
... excitement . " From the foregoing observations we may venture to conclude , that an individual who gives credence to apparitions will also believe in the incarnation of the devil . In both cases we infer that spiritual beings can assume ...
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Página 529 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 25 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Página 403 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions...
Página 146 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Página 445 - The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational, But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Página 127 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Página 25 - To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation.
Página 25 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
Página 403 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.