 ... very humane and learned, but enthusiastic writer. It is an attempt to save the credit of human nature. Without seeking to enter into the dread question of moral responsibility, we may in some degree extenuate, without excusing, the crimes of the persecutors,...  The Inheritance - Page 352by Susan Ferrier - 1824Full view - About this book
 | 1823 - 616 pages
...extenuate, without excusing, the crimes of the persecutors, by ascribing them to virtual insanity. In considering the actions of the mind, it should...yet we can never determine where each hue begins. It has been said that ' Great wit to madness nearly is allied, And thin partitions do the bounds divide.'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...extenuate, without excusing, the crimes of the persecutors, by ascribing them to virtual insanity. In considering the actions of the mind, it should...affections pass into each other like the tints of the rambow : though we can easily distinguish them when they have assumed a decided colour, yet we can... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 480 pages
...degree of emotion, but it soon passed away ; and when, at the end of some months, she read a pompons detail of it in the newspapers, it was with feelings...bewildering glare of romantic passion no longer shed its * Quarterly Review. fair but perishable lustre on the horizon of her existence ; but the calm radiance... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1882 - 456 pages
...dissolved the tie which united them. Injured and betrayed by a faithless wife, the Earl of Eossville fought to avenge his honour, and fell in the cause....colour, yet we can never determine where each hue begins."1 The bewildering glare of romantic passion no longer shed its fair but perishable lustre on... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - 1922 - 500 pages
...extenuate, without excusing, the crimes of the persecutors, by ascribing them to virtual insanity. In considering the actions of the mind, it should...yet we can never determine where each hue begins. It has been said that "Great wit to madness nearly is allied And thin partitions do the bounds divide."... | |
 | Christopher M. Callahan M.D., German E. Berrios M.D. - 2004 - 240 pages
...mental illness and mental health is longstanding, as this quote from the nineteenth century suggests: In considering the actions of the mind, it should...distinguish them when they have assumed a decided color, yet we can never determine where each hue begins. (Ferrier 1824) Before the 1980s, explicit... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave, Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Geoffrey Palgrave Barker - 500 pages
...extenuate, without excusing, the crimes of the persecutors, by ascribing them to virtual insanity. In considering the actions of the mind, it should...yet we can never determine where each hue begins. It has been said that "Great wit to madness nearly is allied And thin partitions do the bounds divide."... | |
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