Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions: Or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical CausesOliver & Boyd, 1825 - 475 Seiten |
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... objects of prior belief as are incor- porated in the various systems of superstition , which for ages have possessed ... object of this dissertation was to have established , that , in every undue excitement of our feelings , ( as , for ...
... objects of prior belief as are incor- porated in the various systems of superstition , which for ages have possessed ... object of this dissertation was to have established , that , in every undue excitement of our feelings , ( as , for ...
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... OBJECTS OF SPECTRAL ILLUSIONS ARE FREQUENTLY SUGGESTED BY THE FANTASTIC IMAGERY OF SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF . CHAP . I ... Object of the Investigation which follows , 241 II . Indications afforded by Mental Excitements , that Organs of ...
... OBJECTS OF SPECTRAL ILLUSIONS ARE FREQUENTLY SUGGESTED BY THE FANTASTIC IMAGERY OF SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF . CHAP . I ... Object of the Investigation which follows , 241 II . Indications afforded by Mental Excitements , that Organs of ...
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... objects of his waking visions , should have acquired an undue degree of vividness . Frequently , however , it would be impossible to trace any correspondence which the particular complexion or disposition of his mind might have with the ...
... objects of his waking visions , should have acquired an undue degree of vividness . Frequently , however , it would be impossible to trace any correspondence which the particular complexion or disposition of his mind might have with the ...
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... objects . The phenomena connected with the Giant of the Broken * are known to every one . To the same class of pseudo- apparitions belong the Fata Morgana , and the Mirage or Water of the Desert . Sometimes , when the mind is morally ...
... objects . The phenomena connected with the Giant of the Broken * are known to every one . To the same class of pseudo- apparitions belong the Fata Morgana , and the Mirage or Water of the Desert . Sometimes , when the mind is morally ...
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... objects , were stored up by the Memory , and liable to be recalled . This doctrine was probably derived from Aristotle , who had some notion of impressions or images remaining after the impressing cause had ceased to act , and that ...
... objects , were stored up by the Memory , and liable to be recalled . This doctrine was probably derived from Aristotle , who had some notion of impressions or images remaining after the impressing cause had ceased to act , and that ...
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Seite 45 - I know my course. 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.
Seite 139 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting...
Seite 190 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
Seite 461 - HAMLET. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel ? POLONIUS. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS. It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET. Or like a whale? POLONIUS. Very like a whale.
Seite 268 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
Seite 389 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Seite 409 - Arms, and the dusty field, I less admire, And soften strangely in some new desire; Honour burns in me not so fiercely bright, But pale as fires when...
Seite 134 - Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but, in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their aery purposes, 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Seite 139 - Therefore for spirits, I am so far from denying their existence, that I could easily believe that not only whole countries, but particular persons have their tutelary and guardian angels.
Seite 209 - Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it : and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment, which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it.