Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions: Or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical CausesOliver & Boyd, 1825 - 475 σελίδες |
Αναζήτηση στο βιβλίο
Αποτελέσματα 1 - 5 από τα 60.
Σελίδα viii
... frequently to be deduced from them . The subject of apparitions has , indeed , for centuries , occupied the attention of the learned ; but seldom without reference to superstitious speculations . It is time , however , that these ...
... frequently to be deduced from them . The subject of apparitions has , indeed , for centuries , occupied the attention of the learned ; but seldom without reference to superstitious speculations . It is time , however , that these ...
Σελίδα x
... frequent Morbid Sources of Spectral 99 66 Illusions , 112 117 119 PART III . PROOFS THAT THE OBJECTS OF SPECTRAL ILLUSIONS ARE FREQUENTLY SUGGESTED BY THE FANTASTIC IMAGERY OF SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF . CHAP . I. Explanation of the Mode in ...
... frequent Morbid Sources of Spectral 99 66 Illusions , 112 117 119 PART III . PROOFS THAT THE OBJECTS OF SPECTRAL ILLUSIONS ARE FREQUENTLY SUGGESTED BY THE FANTASTIC IMAGERY OF SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF . CHAP . I. Explanation of the Mode in ...
Σελίδα xi
... frequent Effect of general Morbific Excite- ments in rendering the Mind unconscious either of pleasurable or painful Feelings , XI . The Influence of any prevailing moral Disposition may be so increased by a Morbific Excitement , as to ...
... frequent Effect of general Morbific Excite- ments in rendering the Mind unconscious either of pleasurable or painful Feelings , XI . The Influence of any prevailing moral Disposition may be so increased by a Morbific Excitement , as to ...
Σελίδα 6
... frequently it may have appeared before the public . " Individuals who pretend to have seen and heard spirits are not to be persuaded that their apparitions were simply the creatures of their senses . You may tell them of the impositions ...
... frequently it may have appeared before the public . " Individuals who pretend to have seen and heard spirits are not to be persuaded that their apparitions were simply the creatures of their senses . You may tell them of the impositions ...
Σελίδα 10
... frequent , and when I walked the public street they very seldom appeared . When I shut my eyes , sometimes the figures ... frequently left me alto- gether , and again appeared for a short or longer space of time , singly or more at once ...
... frequent , and when I walked the public street they very seldom appeared . When I shut my eyes , sometimes the figures ... frequently left me alto- gether , and again appeared for a short or longer space of time , singly or more at once ...
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
2d Stage actual impressions afterwards angels apparitions appeared arise astral spirits blood body brain catalepsy CHAPTER degree of vividness demonology demons devil divels dreams duergar ecstacy effect entertained explain external eyes faint Fancy fear figure frequently ghosts heard hierarchy of angels human imagination imparted induced ject kind Laplanders less vivid manner ment mental excitement mental feelings metaphysicians mind morbific causes narrative nature nerves ness night nitrous oxide notion object observed occasion opinion organs of sense painful feelings particular past feelings perfect sleep person phantasms phenomena philosophers pleasurable feelings present principle Rabbi Akkiva recollected images Reginald Scot remarks rendered renovated feelings retina says second sight seen sensations and ideas shew shewn sions somnambulism Soul spectral illusions spectral impressions spirits stage of excitement subsist superstition supposed TABULAR VIEW thing thou thought tion unconsciousness vanished various vision vivifying influence waking writer
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 49 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Σελίδα 143 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting...
Σελίδα 194 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
Σελίδα 272 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
Σελίδα 393 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Σελίδα 225 - ... imagined might happen by some accident in the candle. But lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord JESUS CHRIST upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed, as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this ef*fect, (for he was not confident as to the very words;) " Oh sinner, did I suffer this for thee,
Σελίδα 138 - Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but, in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their aery purposes, 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Σελίδα 213 - Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it : and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment, which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it.
Σελίδα 228 - Being thus doubtful in my chamber, one fair day in the summer, my casement being opened towards the south, the sun shining clear, and no wind stirring, I took my book, De Veritate...
Σελίδα 190 - And shake us with the vision that's gone by, The dread of vanish'd shadows — Are they so ? Is not the past all shadow ? What are they ? Creations of the mind ? — The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.