Body and mindMacmillan, 1873 - 342 pages |
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... exalt the mind , should consider more deeply than they do the importance of our muscular expressions of feeling . The manifold . shades and kinds of expression which the lips present- their gibes , gambols , and flashes of merriment ...
... exalt the mind , should consider more deeply than they do the importance of our muscular expressions of feeling . The manifold . shades and kinds of expression which the lips present- their gibes , gambols , and flashes of merriment ...
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... exalting the imagination of him who used them . Entirely ignorant as we are , and probably ever shall be , of the nature of mind , groping feebly for the laws of its operation , we certainly cannot venture to set bounds to its power ...
... exalting the imagination of him who used them . Entirely ignorant as we are , and probably ever shall be , of the nature of mind , groping feebly for the laws of its operation , we certainly cannot venture to set bounds to its power ...
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... exalting possession of man ; so , on the other hand , in the microcosm of the body , which some ignorantly despise , there are many more things in the reciprocal action of mind and organic element than are yet dreamt of in our ...
... exalting possession of man ; so , on the other hand , in the microcosm of the body , which some ignorantly despise , there are many more things in the reciprocal action of mind and organic element than are yet dreamt of in our ...
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... exalted ideas as justice , love , virtue , mercy ; he has no such ideas in his mind and cannot comprehend them . The vesicular neurine which should embody them in its constitution and manifest them in its function has not been developed ...
... exalted ideas as justice , love , virtue , mercy ; he has no such ideas in his mind and cannot comprehend them . The vesicular neurine which should embody them in its constitution and manifest them in its function has not been developed ...
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... exaltation and sexual excitement is exemplified by the lives of such religious enthusiasts as St. Theresa and St. Catherine de Sienne , whose nightly trances and visions , in which they believed themselves received as veritable spouses ...
... exaltation and sexual excitement is exemplified by the lives of such religious enthusiasts as St. Theresa and St. Catherine de Sienne , whose nightly trances and visions , in which they believed themselves received as veritable spouses ...
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Popular passages
Page 176 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 173 - What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 179 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 184 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 108 - On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind.
Page 155 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being : that done, he lets me go : And with his head over his shoulder turn'd, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.
Page 123 - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes...
Page 173 - I have of late, (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 189 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all '37: Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what i»'t to leave betimes ? Let be.
Page 167 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.