The 'breakfast table' series. The autocrat of the breakfast-table. The professor at the breakfast-table. The poet at the breakfast-tableG. Routledge and sons, 1901 |
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affairs arms asked atavism Bald Bell brain Bruno Burke called Charlie child Church Cloth bound comber condition criminal curses Dagda daugh daughter dear diphtheria dipsomania disease door drink Eben Holden epilepsy eyes face fact father fear feel flagellation friends gave girl give hand HAROLD FREDERIC heard horrible hospital husband ideas ignorant impulse Indian insane Jed Prouty Kassel Kingdom of Navarre kissed knew laughed Leigh lighted Leigh Newcomber letter looked marriage married matter MAX NORDAU ment mental mind mission Mizpra Mops moral morbid morning morphine mother nervous never night nurse Oberea passions physical physician physiologic psychic realize replied ruin side sister smile stood story suffering talk tell thought tion to-night told train trembling turned uncon understand unfortunate voice wait walked watched woman women
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Σελίδα 319 - ... immediately added, which would undoubtedly soon pass off. It displayed itself in a host of unnatural sensations. Some of these, as he detailed them, interested and bewildered me; although, perhaps, the terms, and the general manner...
Σελίδα 318 - During these fits of absolute unconsciousness, I drank — God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink, rather than the drink to the insanity.
Σελίδα 207 - Drorbaugh [T]he female possessed of masculine ideas of independence; the viragint who would sit in the public highways and lift up her pseudovirile voice, proclaiming her sole right to decide questions of war or religion, or the value of celibacy and the curse of women's impurity, and that disgusting anti-social being, the female sexual pervert, are simply different degrees of the same class — degenerates.
Σελίδα 319 - He entered, at some length, into what he conceived to be the nature of his malady. It was, he said, a constitutional and a family evil, and one for which he despaired to find a remedy — a mere nervous affection, he immediately added, which would undoubtedly soon pass off.
Σελίδα 315 - Which it would poure on thee, upon the floore. It is most just to throw that on the ground Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.
Σελίδα 317 - ... influence of the gloomy furniture of the room, of the dark and tattered draperies, which, tortured into motion by the breath of a rising tempest, swayed fitfully to and fro upon the walls, and rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed. But my efforts were fruitless. An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm.
Σελίδα 349 - ... the carnal mind is enmity against God, and is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.