The Philosophy of SleepD. Appleton, 1834 - 296 Seiten |
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... deeply , and thus give rise to an abler disquisition . So far as I know , this is the only treatise in which an attempt is made to give a complete account of Sleep . The subject is not an easy one ; and , in the present state.
... deeply , and thus give rise to an abler disquisition . So far as I know , this is the only treatise in which an attempt is made to give a complete account of Sleep . The subject is not an easy one ; and , in the present state.
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... rise to much giddiness , followed by intense slumber , and at last by death , if they be continued very long . By lying flat upon a millstone while performing its evolutions , sleep is soon produced , and death , with- out pain , would ...
... rise to much giddiness , followed by intense slumber , and at last by death , if they be continued very long . By lying flat upon a millstone while performing its evolutions , sleep is soon produced , and death , with- out pain , would ...
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... rise to images of the most perplexing description . In this state they continue for some time , until , as sleep be- comes more profound , the brain is left to thorough repose , and they disappear altogether . Sleep produces other ...
... rise to images of the most perplexing description . In this state they continue for some time , until , as sleep be- comes more profound , the brain is left to thorough repose , and they disappear altogether . Sleep produces other ...
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... rise to the stertorous noise . Snuffing , by ob- structing the nasal passages and thus rendering breathing more difficult , has the same effect ; con- sequently snuffers are very often great snorers . The less rapidly the blood is ...
... rise to the stertorous noise . Snuffing , by ob- structing the nasal passages and thus rendering breathing more difficult , has the same effect ; con- sequently snuffers are very often great snorers . The less rapidly the blood is ...
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... rise to it . During complete sleep no sensation whatever is experienced by the individual : he neither feels pain , hunger , thirst , nor the ordinary desires of nature . He may be awakened to a sense of such feelings , but during ...
... rise to it . During complete sleep no sensation whatever is experienced by the individual : he neither feels pain , hunger , thirst , nor the ordinary desires of nature . He may be awakened to a sense of such feelings , but during ...
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Seite 47 - The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness...
Seite 69 - Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy spirit shall not sleep, There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish...
Seite 47 - In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in Turchas's Pilgrimage': 'Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto....
Seite 255 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Seite 228 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Seite 61 - Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern...
Seite 62 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas; and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Seite 82 - I replied, 0 let me have the same grant given to Hezekiah, that I may live fifteen years, to see my daughter a woman : to which they answered, It is done ; and then, at that instant, I awoke out of my trance ; and Dr. Howlsworth did there affirm, that that day she died made just fifteen years from that time.
Seite 91 - Edinburgh next day, and make the best bargain he could in the way of compromise. He went to bed with this resolution, and, with all the circumstances of the case floating upon his mind, had a dream to the following purpose. His father, who had been many years dead, appeared to him, he thought, and asked him why he was disturbed in his mind. In dreams men are not surprised at such apparitions. Mr.
Seite 63 - Hitherto the human face had mixed often in my dreams, but not despotically, nor with any special power of tormenting. But now that which I have called the tyranny of the human face began to unfold itself. Perhaps some part of my London 'life might be answerable for this.