Observations on the Importance, in Purchases of Land and in Mercantile Adventures, of Ascertaining the Rates Or Laws of Mortality Among Europeans by Chronic Diseases and Hot Climates ...J. A. Hessey, 1826 - 102 pages |
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... say " beside themselves . " ) It is possible that to many the essays on these characters may form the leading inducements to a perusal of the work . " + There was , still , another reason for selecting madness . Puerperal mania properly ...
... say " beside themselves . " ) It is possible that to many the essays on these characters may form the leading inducements to a perusal of the work . " + There was , still , another reason for selecting madness . Puerperal mania properly ...
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... says , Notional delirium is peculiar to madness , and asserts , that the bulk of mankind morally , if not medically , are more or less affected by it . Socrates and the Stoics considered every foolish or wicked person as insane . " All ...
... says , Notional delirium is peculiar to madness , and asserts , that the bulk of mankind morally , if not medically , are more or less affected by it . Socrates and the Stoics considered every foolish or wicked person as insane . " All ...
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... says , that each hemisphere of the brain contains a distinct set , and quotes Tiedman for the case of a man , who was insane on one side , and observed his insanity with the other . Gall also speaks of a minister who con stantly heard ...
... says , that each hemisphere of the brain contains a distinct set , and quotes Tiedman for the case of a man , who was insane on one side , and observed his insanity with the other . Gall also speaks of a minister who con stantly heard ...
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... says Haslam , “ from those who have copiously treated of this dis ease , without the toil of practical remark ; whose heads , become bewildered by the gentlest exercise , and to whom the recreation of thinking be comes the exciting ...
... says Haslam , “ from those who have copiously treated of this dis ease , without the toil of practical remark ; whose heads , become bewildered by the gentlest exercise , and to whom the recreation of thinking be comes the exciting ...
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... says , he attended an idiotic man of erudition , whose head in its best es- tate was a mere repository for other men's ideas , not a soil out of which an idea ever grew . But it is worthy of remark , that mathematicians and natural ...
... says , he attended an idiotic man of erudition , whose head in its best es- tate was a mere repository for other men's ideas , not a soil out of which an idea ever grew . But it is worthy of remark , that mathematicians and natural ...
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Page 32 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 40 - I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Page 44 - But I am very sorry, good Horatio, That to Laertes I forgot myself; For by the image of my cause I see The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours: But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion.
Page 32 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Page 40 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 26 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 41 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 27 - Hear, Nature, hear! dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility; Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her.
Page 39 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Page 58 - Turk: false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.