Facts in Mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into itLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840 - 575 pages |
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... thought prefaces very troublesome things to write . And are they not , in fact , pieces of falseness throughout ? standing first , though written last- expressing a humility which the author does not feel and claiming the especial ...
... thought prefaces very troublesome things to write . And are they not , in fact , pieces of falseness throughout ? standing first , though written last- expressing a humility which the author does not feel and claiming the especial ...
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... thought as a mere elabora- tion of the brain ; -but , in so doing , they open a field of speculation , which they would be sorry to enter upon further than they find convenient . In the very terms of their dissent , they admit of two ...
... thought as a mere elabora- tion of the brain ; -but , in so doing , they open a field of speculation , which they would be sorry to enter upon further than they find convenient . In the very terms of their dissent , they admit of two ...
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... thoughts . We at length behold it , and are discon- tented to find it endued , perhaps , with even more beauty than we had imagined ; because the beauty is of a different kind . There is rock where we expected smooth turf ; there is ...
... thoughts . We at length behold it , and are discon- tented to find it endued , perhaps , with even more beauty than we had imagined ; because the beauty is of a different kind . There is rock where we expected smooth turf ; there is ...
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... thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries , the mind of man was very apt to run into , was to ... thoughts into the vast ocean of being , as if all that boundless extent were the natural and undoubted possession of ...
... thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries , the mind of man was very apt to run into , was to ... thoughts into the vast ocean of being , as if all that boundless extent were the natural and undoubted possession of ...
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... thought ; when it seems probable that our system is but one of countless numbers , that are revolving round some unknown centre , in periods which thought cannot с 3 MESMERISM . 29.
... thought ; when it seems probable that our system is but one of countless numbers , that are revolving round some unknown centre , in periods which thought cannot с 3 MESMERISM . 29.
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Page 363 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 516 - Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 516 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 450 - I think evident, that we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end several actions of our minds, and motions of our bodies, barely by a thought or preference of the mind ordering, or, as it were, commanding the doing or not doing such or such a particular action.
Page 36 - With what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world ; to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits ? Whom thus the Angel interrupted mild.
Page 450 - For when the ball obeys the stroke of a billiard-stick, it is not any action of the ball, but bare passion : also when by impulse it sets another ball in motion that lay in its way, it only communicates the motion it had received from another, and loses in itself so much as the other received...
Page 324 - ... the lower part of his waistcoat. To remove it, therefore, became expedient in my eyes ; and in an evil moment it was removed with a knife. Great was my anxiety to know the success of my measure, and it succeeded too well.
Page 450 - Of Thinking, Body affords us no Idea at all, it is only from Reflection that we have that: 2. Neither have we from Body any Idea of the beginning of Motion. A Body at rest affords us no Idea of any active Power to move; and when it is set in motion it self, that Motion is rather a Passion, than an Action in it.
Page 37 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 409 - Is not vision performed chiefly by the vibrations of this medium., excited in the bottom of the eye by the rays of light, and propagated through the solid, pellucid, and uniform capillamenta of the nerves into the place of sensation?