The Philosophy of SleepD. Appleton & Company, 1834 - 336 Seiten |
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... heat and monotony , is apt to induce slumber , not less remarkable for the rapidity of its accession than its overpowering character . In such a situation , the mind in a few minutes ceases to act , and sinks into a state of ...
... heat and monotony , is apt to induce slumber , not less remarkable for the rapidity of its accession than its overpowering character . In such a situation , the mind in a few minutes ceases to act , and sinks into a state of ...
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... heat , and keep awake in spite of it . Thus , in a crowded church , where a dull , inanimate preacher would throw the congregation into a deep slumber , such a man as Massilon , or Chalmers , would keep them in a state of keen ...
... heat , and keep awake in spite of it . Thus , in a crowded church , where a dull , inanimate preacher would throw the congregation into a deep slumber , such a man as Massilon , or Chalmers , would keep them in a state of keen ...
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... heat , but to do so a very low temperature is necessary , particularly with regard to the human race ; for , when cold is not excessive , it prevents instead of occasioning slumber in illustration of which , I may mention the case of ...
... heat , but to do so a very low temperature is necessary , particularly with regard to the human race ; for , when cold is not excessive , it prevents instead of occasioning slumber in illustration of which , I may mention the case of ...
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... heat . In the summer season , a strong inclination is often felt to sleep after dinner , when the weather is very warm . A heavy meal , which produces no uneasy feeling while the person is awake , will often do so if he fall asleep ...
... heat . In the summer season , a strong inclination is often felt to sleep after dinner , when the weather is very warm . A heavy meal , which produces no uneasy feeling while the person is awake , will often do so if he fall asleep ...
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... heat of the ground almost insufferable . Another person having a blister applied to his head , imagined that he was scalped by a party of Indians ; while a friend of mine happening to sleep in damp sheets , dreamed that he was dragged ...
... heat of the ground almost insufferable . Another person having a blister applied to his head , imagined that he was scalped by a party of Indians ; while a friend of mine happening to sleep in damp sheets , dreamed that he was dragged ...
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activity affection animal apoplexy apparitions appeared arise attack awake awoke become body brain canonical hour cause character circulation circumstances cold colour consequence continued curious death delirium delirium tremens digestion disease disordered dreadful dream excited existence eyes fact faculties fall asleep familiar spirits fancy feeling fever frequently frightful gentleman give rise head hear heat hydrothorax hypochondriac ideas imagination impressions incubus individual induce instance intense Julius Cæsar kind lady latter laudanum less light menorrhagia mental mind morning muscles Mysteries of Udolpho nature never night night-mare object occasion occurred opium organs pain paroxysm perfect sleep period person phantoms phenomena Phrenological present produced reason recollection remain remarkable repose reverie seems seldom sensation senses sensorial power Sir John Sinclair sleep-talking slept slumber sometimes somnambulism somnolency sound spectral illusions stances stimulated stomach supposed takes place terror thing thought tion torpor violent viscus visions waking walk whole
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Seite 104 - 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 120 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you: I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms : this I have seen since I saw you.
Seite 316 - 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 286 - 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 95 - 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 97 - 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 60 - Buildings, landscapes, etc., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience.
Seite 97 - 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.
Seite 65 - 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 "Purchas's Pilgrimage": "Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto....
Seite 131 - ... of the vision, he inquired whether he remembered having conducted such a matter for his deceased father. The old gentleman could not at first bring the circumstance to his recollection, but on mention of the Portugal piece of gold, the whole returned upon his memory ; he made an immediate search for the papers, and recovered them, — so that Mr. B d carried to Edinburgh the documents necessary to gain the cause which he was on the verge of losing.