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 - 597 էջ |
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... persons who sacrifice their peace for the attainment of notoriety , literary men are most frequently made the subject of biography ; but of all are they least fitted for that sort of microscopic biography which consists in the ...
... persons who sacrifice their peace for the attainment of notoriety , literary men are most frequently made the subject of biography ; but of all are they least fitted for that sort of microscopic biography which consists in the ...
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... persons who make books the business of their lives , or who are addicted to studious habits ; and our observations apply to those who think too much on any subject , whether that subject be connected with legal , polemical , or medical ...
... persons who make books the business of their lives , or who are addicted to studious habits ; and our observations apply to those who think too much on any subject , whether that subject be connected with legal , polemical , or medical ...
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... 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 , but may he not have commenced , like the Irish ...
... 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 , but may he not have commenced , like the Irish ...
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... persons when in a dying state . These symptoms are painful only to the spectators , and not to the dying , who are not sensible of them . The case here is the same as if one , from the dreadful contortions of a person in an epileptic ...
... persons when in a dying state . These symptoms are painful only to the spectators , and not to the dying , who are not sensible of them . The case here is the same as if one , from the dreadful contortions of a person in an epileptic ...
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... persons who never took upon them the ties of husband or of fathers . And had they done so , who knows what their conduct might have been in these relations ? New- ton , Galileo , Michael Angelo , Locke , Hume , Pope , never married ...
... persons who never took upon them the ties of husband or of fathers . And had they done so , who knows what their conduct might have been in these relations ? New- ton , Galileo , Michael Angelo , Locke , Hume , Pope , never married ...
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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 79 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Էջ 166 - 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 177 - 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 176 - 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 107 - Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to have administered in the last hours of their lives, I have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to " the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.
Էջ 186 - Whether what Temple says be true, that physicians have had more learning than the other faculties, I will not stay to...
Էջ 171 - ... his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care, to go out or in at a door' or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture : for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with...
Էջ 87 - The first is their negligence: "Other men look to their tools, a painter will wash his pencils, a smith will look to his hammer, anvil, forge: an husbandman will mend his ploughirons, and grind his hatchet if it be dull; a falconer or huntsman will have an especial care of his hawks, hounds, horses, dogs, &c.
Էջ 171 - 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 154 - 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.