On Hallucinations: A History and Explanation of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and SomnambulismH. Renshaw, 1859 - 455 |
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... continued meditation . Besides , who can help being struck with the ex- treme difference between these persons and those of the present day , who are subject to hallucinations ? The first , powerful , strong , logical , show themselves ...
... continued meditation . Besides , who can help being struck with the ex- treme difference between these persons and those of the present day , who are subject to hallucinations ? The first , powerful , strong , logical , show themselves ...
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... continued the physician , ' it is now present to your imagination ? ' To my imagination it cer- tainly is so , ' replied the sick man . ' And in what part of the chamber do you now conceive the appari- tion to appear ? ' the physician ...
... continued the physician , ' it is now present to your imagination ? ' To my imagination it cer- tainly is so , ' replied the sick man . ' And in what part of the chamber do you now conceive the appari- tion to appear ? ' the physician ...
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... continued till half - past four o'clock , exactly the time when the digestion commences . I then observed that the figures began to move more slowly ; soon after- wards the colours became gradually paler , and at about half - past six o ...
... continued till half - past four o'clock , exactly the time when the digestion commences . I then observed that the figures began to move more slowly ; soon after- wards the colours became gradually paler , and at about half - past six o ...
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... continued dissipation of an infatuated father , the circumstances of the family began to decline , and step by step they became reduced to the greatest wretchedness . In the course of a few years D. was sent to sea , as the speediest ...
... continued dissipation of an infatuated father , the circumstances of the family began to decline , and step by step they became reduced to the greatest wretchedness . In the course of a few years D. was sent to sea , as the speediest ...
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... continued in an un- easy state during the following day . I was always able to distinguish the different colours of the clothes , and I had never seen the individual during life dressed in a similar way . In all its characters it ...
... continued in an un- easy state during the following day . I was always able to distinguish the different colours of the clothes , and I had never seen the individual during life dressed in a similar way . In all its characters it ...
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Strona 275 - In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country, of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.
Strona 219 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the temple, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, a voice against all the people.
Strona 324 - That, as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states of the brain in one point — that whatsoever I happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams...
Strona 325 - I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically; but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend.
Strona 298 - This, how strange soever it may seem, I protest before the eternal God is true, neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein, since I did not only clearly hear the noise, but in the serenest sky that ever I saw, being without all cloud, did to my thinking see the place from whence it came.
Strona 326 - 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. Be that as it may, now it was that upon the rocking waters of the ocean the human face began to appear ; the sea appeared paved with innumerable faces upturned to the heavens — faces imploring, wrathful, despairing, surged upwards by thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries : my agitation was infinite ; my mind tossed and surged with the ocean.
Strona 325 - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., 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.
Strona 326 - The waters now changed their character, — from translucent lakes, shining like mirrors, they now became seas and oceans. And now came a tremendous change, which, unfolding itself slowly like a scroll, through many months, promised an abiding torment; and, in fact, it never left me until the winding up of my case.
Strona 174 - R d thought that he informed his father of the cause of his distress, adding that the payment of a considerable sum of money was the more unpleasant to him, because he had a strong consciousness that it was not due, though he was unable to recover any evidence in support of his belief. " You are right, my son," replied the paternal shade ; " I did acquire right to these teinds, for payment of which you are now prosecuted.
Strona 298 - 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...