The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ... Containing General Correspondence, Classical Disquisitions, Account of Rare and Curious Books, Memoirs of Distinguished Persons, Original Poetry, Literary and Miscellaneous Information, Band 1John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... mind . The very sound of a lady's library , it seems , gave him a great curiosity to see it ; and he takes care to inform us that Leonora , the proprietor , was distinguished for her love of books and retirement . The list is ...
... mind . The very sound of a lady's library , it seems , gave him a great curiosity to see it ; and he takes care to inform us that Leonora , the proprietor , was distinguished for her love of books and retirement . The list is ...
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... mind with use- ful knowledge , even amusement , the great aim of persons of leisure , requires a large range for the pursuit of that novelly which is essential to its gratification ; for nothing is more certain than that a single set of ...
... mind with use- ful knowledge , even amusement , the great aim of persons of leisure , requires a large range for the pursuit of that novelly which is essential to its gratification ; for nothing is more certain than that a single set of ...
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... mind is so obvious and decided , that none but the patient himself can doubt of it ; as when a person fancies himself to be a king or emperor , or imagines that the objects around him are totally different from what they appear to every ...
... mind is so obvious and decided , that none but the patient himself can doubt of it ; as when a person fancies himself to be a king or emperor , or imagines that the objects around him are totally different from what they appear to every ...
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... mind in which fancy predominates over reason . I was lately told of a re- markable instance of a project originating in the brain of a person labouring under temporary derangement . Being allowed the use of pen and paper , he drew up a ...
... mind in which fancy predominates over reason . I was lately told of a re- markable instance of a project originating in the brain of a person labouring under temporary derangement . Being allowed the use of pen and paper , he drew up a ...
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... mind occasioned by enthusiasm , is the case of violent and uncontroulable passions , which frequently bring a man into a state scarcely distinguishable from madness . Á writer , indeed , has happily said of an habitually passionate man ...
... mind occasioned by enthusiasm , is the case of violent and uncontroulable passions , which frequently bring a man into a state scarcely distinguishable from madness . Á writer , indeed , has happily said of an habitually passionate man ...
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Seite 146 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Seite 172 - I communicate also a statistical view, procured and forwarded by him, of the Indian nations inhabiting the Territory of Louisiana...
Seite 265 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Seite 146 - So far in relation to the upper terminus of the long man; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Gibbon goes on: " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
Seite 245 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Seite 459 - To bear the ills they have, Than fly to others that they know not of.
Seite 120 - Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures of don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.
Seite 65 - Like fears that cross the mind, Like meteors gleaming through the night, Like thunders on the wind. The vision of the tomb is past ; Beyond it who can tell In what mysterious region cast Immortal spirits dwell ? I know not, but I soon shall know When life's sore conflicts cease, When this desponding heart lies low, And I shall rest in peace. For see, on Death's bewildering wave, The rainbow Hope arise, A bridge of glory o'er the grave, That bends beyond the skies.
Seite 115 - Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.
Seite 6 - The excellent lady, the Lady Lizard, in the space of one summer, furnished a gallery with chairs and couches of her own and her daughters' working ; and at the same time heard all Dr.