Facts in Mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into itLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840 - 575 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 45
Page 7
... turned men from true in- quiry , and , like a tub thrown out to the whale , has served as an object of attack , while the real point in debate has remained untouched altogether . We have asked whether such a power as mesmerism exists ...
... turned men from true in- quiry , and , like a tub thrown out to the whale , has served as an object of attack , while the real point in debate has remained untouched altogether . We have asked whether such a power as mesmerism exists ...
Page 11
... turned away from it with the same sort of flat dis- appointment which we experience , when , after having trembled at the haunted chambers , dusky veils , and heaving coverlids of a romance , we are chilled into our sober senses by the ...
... turned away from it with the same sort of flat dis- appointment which we experience , when , after having trembled at the haunted chambers , dusky veils , and heaving coverlids of a romance , we are chilled into our sober senses by the ...
Page 34
... turned it from its course , and by many a storm its sails were rent , and its noble frame was shattered . - But it is not so much the causes which I have separately enumerated as their combination which has marked the discovery of ...
... turned it from its course , and by many a storm its sails were rent , and its noble frame was shattered . - But it is not so much the causes which I have separately enumerated as their combination which has marked the discovery of ...
Page 37
... turning his thoughts upon it not only too vividly , but too exclusively . Absorbed by a mighty interest , he is too apt to pass into that mood wherein , as to a lover , all nature is to us but a reflection of the beloved object ; when ...
... turning his thoughts upon it not only too vividly , but too exclusively . Absorbed by a mighty interest , he is too apt to pass into that mood wherein , as to a lover , all nature is to us but a reflection of the beloved object ; when ...
Page 40
... turned into a disposition to credit all things upon no evidence whatever . The barrier of prudent hesitation is cast down , and his mind is left a prey to the invasion of every idle fancy . That he was once even of a sceptical spirit ...
... turned into a disposition to credit all things upon no evidence whatever . The barrier of prudent hesitation is cast down , and his mind is left a prey to the invasion of every idle fancy . That he was once even of a sceptical spirit ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action agency Anna Antwerp appears ascer ascertained asked awake body brain called catalepsy cause circumstances colours condition consciousness dium eau de cologne effects electric evident exclaimed exhibited existence experiment external eyes fact faculties feeling felt fingers force forehead hand head hearing human idea imagination impulses inquiry lady least light Mademoiselle magnetic manifest manner matter means ment meric meriser mesmeric influence mesmeric medium mesmeric patients mesmeric sleep mesmeric sleepwaking mesmerised person mesmeriser's mind mode motion nature nerves nervous system Neufchâtel never objects observed occasion once optic nerve organs particular passed peculiar perceive perception perfect perfect darkness perfectly pheno phenomena phenomenon present principle produced proof proved question reason relation remarked remember render replied retina seemed sensation senses sensibility somnambule suppose thing thought tion told touch Townshend truth tympanum uncon usual vibrations vision visual perceptions waker waking
Popular passages
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?