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according action affections Almighty animal appear appetite association beauty become blood bodily body brain breathing causes cerning character Christian circumstances colour connexion consciousness creatures Dancing Mania darkness death delirium desire disease disorder Divine dreams embryo endeavour enjoy enjoyment evil excited exercise existence experience fact faculties faith fancy feeling germinal vesicle habit happiness harmony heart heaven Hence human human voice ideas imagination impression individual influence instincts intellect irritability James Mitchell knowledge Laura Bridgman light living look man's manifest manner means ment mental merism mind moral muscles muscular system nature nerves nervous system objects Omnipotence operation organs ovum passions pathy peculiar perceive perception persons phrenologists physical physiology pleasure possess principle probably produced proper purpose reason reflex action regard relation retina seems sensation senses sensibility sensorium sight soul spirit stimulants sympathy tardigrade temper things thinking thought tion truth vision vital volition
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Page 58 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly ; And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world, Did lose his lustre. I did hear him groan ; Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 171 - 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.
Page 184 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 175 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Page 242 - A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.
Page 171 - 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.
Page 177 - 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.
Page 73 - I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid visible images rapidly passed through my mind and were connected with words in such a manner, as to produce perceptions perfectly novel. I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas.
Page 46 - Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale of creation, leaves death behind it or under it. The metal at its height of being seems a mute prophecy of the coming vegetation, into a mimic semblance of which it crystallizes. The blossom and flower, the acme...
Page 174 - Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again...