The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius, Հատոր 1Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833 |
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... present themselves at our doors , embodying in their persons all the prin- ciples of the exact sciences , and yet derive no benefit from their knowledge of mathematics . The schoolmaster has indeed been abroad in the lower walks of life ...
... present themselves at our doors , embodying in their persons all the prin- ciples of the exact sciences , and yet derive no benefit from their knowledge of mathematics . The schoolmaster has indeed been abroad in the lower walks of life ...
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... present time it must be admitted that nothing is known of its essence . Its effects , both in animal and vege- table life , have been found in some important respects to be analogous with those of an agent the most wonderful in nature ...
... present time it must be admitted that nothing is known of its essence . Its effects , both in animal and vege- table life , have been found in some important respects to be analogous with those of an agent the most wonderful in nature ...
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... present condition ; we look for a time that we may reasonably expect , for a bright day of which we already behold the dawn ! " The influence which electricity exerts over vegetable life , till 48 THE NERVOUS ENERGY .
... present condition ; we look for a time that we may reasonably expect , for a bright day of which we already behold the dawn ! " The influence which electricity exerts over vegetable life , till 48 THE NERVOUS ENERGY .
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... present day , was dis- satisfied with the explanation which is commonly given of the physiology of respiration , and the mode in which heat is supposed to be evolved by that process . Where Davy doubted , he was not a man likely to be ...
... present day , was dis- satisfied with the explanation which is commonly given of the physiology of respiration , and the mode in which heat is supposed to be evolved by that process . Where Davy doubted , he was not a man likely to be ...
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... present , but posterity will adopt it . I can afford to wait thirty or forty years for the world's justice , since nature has waited three thousand years for an observer ; " for Davy , like Kepler , had his mo- ments of " glorious ...
... present , but posterity will adopt it . I can afford to wait thirty or forty years for the world's justice , since nature has waited three thousand years for an observer ; " for Davy , like Kepler , had his mo- ments of " glorious ...
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The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in ..., Հատոր 2 Richard Robert Madden Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1833 |
The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in ..., Հատոր 2 Richard Robert Madden Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1833 |
The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in ..., Հատոր 1 Richard Robert Madden Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1833 |
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Էջ 29 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Էջ 80 - The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, — The majesty of darkness shall Receive my parting ghost ! This spirit shall return to Him That gave its heavenly spark; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou thyself art dark! No ! it shall live again, and shine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By him recall'd to breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of Victory, — And took the sting from Death...
Էջ 168 - I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable space of time. He said, 'he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.
Էջ 179 - Every thing about his character and manners was forcible and violent ; there never was any moderation. Many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine : but when he did eat, it was voraciously ; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.
Էջ 94 - 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.
Էջ 178 - I never k'new any man who relished good eating more than he did. When at table, he was totally absorbed in the business of the. moment ; his looks seemed rivetted to his plate ; nor. would he, unless when in very high company, say one word, or even pay the least attention to what was said by others, till he had satisfied his appetite, which was so fierce, and indulged with such intenseness, that while in the act of eating, the veins • of his forehead swelled, and generally a strong perspiration...
Էջ 188 - Whether what Temple says be true, that physicians have had more learning than the other faculties, I will not stay to...
Էջ 173 - It is not more strange that there should be evil spirits than evil men: evil unembodied spirits, than evil embodied spirits. And as to storms, we know there are such things; and it is no worse that evil spirits raise them than that they rise.
Էջ 143 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid, for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult for him to be clean.
Էջ 156 - Tis carnificina hominum, angor animi, as well saith Areteus, a plague of the soul, the cramp and convulsion of the soul, an epitome of hell ; and if there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart " For that deep torture may be call'd an hell, When more Is felt, than one hath power to tell.