Facts in Mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into itLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840 - 575 էջ |
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... nature ! -to receive at once the benefit of sleep , and do the effects of watching . In this slumbery agitation , besides her walking and , other actual performances , what , at any time , have you heard her say ? " - SHAKSPEARE . " I ...
... nature ! -to receive at once the benefit of sleep , and do the effects of watching . In this slumbery agitation , besides her walking and , other actual performances , what , at any time , have you heard her say ? " - SHAKSPEARE . " I ...
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... nature — that is , the imagination and the organisation ; the first not only modifying the action of the latter , but actually mastering it altogether . Granting that the imagin- - ation can influence the bodily frame to the extent ...
... nature — that is , the imagination and the organisation ; the first not only modifying the action of the latter , but actually mastering it altogether . Granting that the imagin- - ation can influence the bodily frame to the extent ...
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... nature by its fancied resemblance to another . Wishing , perhaps , to avoid the error of the Spiritualists , who solve the problem in debate by the power of the soul alone , they have ransacked the material world for analogies to ...
... nature by its fancied resemblance to another . Wishing , perhaps , to avoid the error of the Spiritualists , who solve the problem in debate by the power of the soul alone , they have ransacked the material world for analogies to ...
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... nature , with which it were vain to quarrel , since they are actually a part of man's most valuable inheritance and absolutely essential to the whole conduct of life . That attraction towards sensuous objects , which is fitted to a ...
... nature , with which it were vain to quarrel , since they are actually a part of man's most valuable inheritance and absolutely essential to the whole conduct of life . That attraction towards sensuous objects , which is fitted to a ...
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... nature by the stimulus of curiosity ? There is , then , in the nature of things no necessity that mesmerism , because it is recondite , should be unexplored . To investigate it may indeed be difficult ; but appears to be rather enjoined ...
... nature by the stimulus of curiosity ? There is , then , in the nature of things no necessity that mesmerism , because it is recondite , should be unexplored . To investigate it may indeed be difficult ; but appears to be rather enjoined ...
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Facts in Mesmerism: With Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry Into it Chauncy Hare Townshend Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1844 |
Facts in Mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into it Chauncy Hare Townshend Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
Facts in Mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into it Chauncy Hare Townshend Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
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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
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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?