The Use of the Body in Relation to the MindLongman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1846 - 431 páginas |
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Página 75
... vision to the gifted seer ? Has philosophy no prophets ? Are we but dust , con- scious dust , without soul , without the past , without futurity ? Nay , we are ; and therefore shall be ! Our faith rests not on the correctness of dark ...
... vision to the gifted seer ? Has philosophy no prophets ? Are we but dust , con- scious dust , without soul , without the past , without futurity ? Nay , we are ; and therefore shall be ! Our faith rests not on the correctness of dark ...
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... vision . We look among the starry worlds of light , where order reigns , and think we see confusion ! We pry into the arcana of physiology , and fancy we discover accidents resulting from Divine laws ! But there is a spiritual world ...
... vision . We look among the starry worlds of light , where order reigns , and think we see confusion ! We pry into the arcana of physiology , and fancy we discover accidents resulting from Divine laws ! But there is a spiritual world ...
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... vision . That impressions received by the mind of the parent are , in their influ- ence , transmitted to the offspring is undeniable , since experiments on animals have demonstrated the fact in the clearest manner . Thus Mr. Knight ...
... vision . That impressions received by the mind of the parent are , in their influ- ence , transmitted to the offspring is undeniable , since experiments on animals have demonstrated the fact in the clearest manner . Thus Mr. Knight ...
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... vision . Their meaning will shine out if we reflect on the in- fluence which the mother's and even the father's habits exert on the constitution moulded in utero . There the ground - work of all history is laid in embryo , and the seeds ...
... vision . Their meaning will shine out if we reflect on the in- fluence which the mother's and even the father's habits exert on the constitution moulded in utero . There the ground - work of all history is laid in embryo , and the seeds ...
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George Moore. sympathy , and his forethought and his wisdom for pro- vision . The Father knows our wants . The consti- tution of our bodies is no less a proof of his skill than of his kindness ; for as he has gifted us with minds to reap ...
George Moore. sympathy , and his forethought and his wisdom for pro- vision . The Father knows our wants . The consti- tution of our bodies is no less a proof of his skill than of his kindness ; for as he has gifted us with minds to reap ...
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abstinence according action affections Almighty animal appears asso association beauty become blood bodily body brain breath cause cerning character Christian colour connexion consciousness creatures darkness delight delirium desire disease disorder Divine dreams endeavour enjoy enjoyment evil excited exercise existence experience fact faculties faith fancy favour feeling felt fluid germinal vesicle habit happiness harmony heart heaven Hence human ideas imagination impressions individual influence instincts intel intellect irritability kind knowledge laws light living Mammon manifest manner ment mental mind moral muscles muscular system nature nerves nervous system objects observe Omnipotence operation optic nerve organs ovum oxygen passions peculiar perceive perception persons phrenologists physical physiology pleasure possess produced proper proved purpose racter reason reflex action regard relation retina rienced scarcely seems sensation senses sensibility sensorium sight soul spinal spirit stimulants sympathy tardigrade temper things thinking thoughts tion truth vidual vision wisdom
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Página 177 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high-embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Página 191 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Página 293 - Wonder not then, what GOD for you saw good If I refuse not, but convert, as you, To proper substance : time may come, when men With angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare : And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit...
Página 188 - ... as in a piece of arras work, the whole of my past life — not as if recalled by an act of memory, but as if present and incarnated in the music: no longer painful to dwell upon: but the detail of its incidents removed, or blended in some hazy abstraction: and its passions exalted, spiritualized, and sublimed.
Página 177 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Página 306 - I observed that in proportion as our strength decayed our minds exhibited symptoms of weakness, evinced by a kind of unreasonable pettishness with each other. Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance.
Página 183 - It calls in my spirits, composes my thoughts, delights my ear, recreates my mind, and so not only fits me for after business, but fills my heart, at the present, with pure and useful thoughts ; so that when the music sounds the sweetliest in my ears truth commonly flows the clearest into my mind.
Página iii - Moore.— The Power of the Soul over the Body, considered in relation to Health and Morals. By GEORGE MOORE, MD, Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
Página 73 - I had experienced in former experiments. After the first six or seven inspirations, I gradually began to lose the perception of external things, and a vivid and intense recollection of some former experiments passed through my mind, so that I called out 'what an amazing concatenation of ideas!
Página 145 - It is a good thing, to have a conscience void of offence, both towards God, and towards man.