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abstinence according action affections Almighty animal appears asso association beauty become blood bodily body brain breath cause cerning character Christian colour connexion consciousness creatures darkness delight delirium desire disease disorder Divine dreams endeavour enjoy enjoyment evil excited exercise existence experience fact faculties faith fancy favour feeling felt fluid germinal vesicle habit happiness harmony heart heaven Hence human ideas imagination impressions individual influence instincts intel intellect irritability kind knowledge laws light living Mammon manifest manner ment mental mind moral muscles muscular system nature nerves nervous system objects observe Omnipotence operation optic nerve organs ovum oxygen passions peculiar perceive perception persons phrenologists physical physiology pleasure possess produced proper proved purpose racter reason reflex action regard relation retina rienced scarcely seems sensation senses sensibility sensorium sight soul spinal spirit stimulants sympathy tardigrade temper things thinking thoughts tion truth vidual vision wisdom
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Page 177 - 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 191 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 293 - Wonder not then, what GOD for you saw good If I refuse not, but convert, as you, To proper substance : time may come, when men With angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare : And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit...
Page 188 - ... as in a piece of arras work, the whole of my past life — not as if recalled by an act of memory, but as if present and incarnated in the music: no longer painful to dwell upon: but the detail of its incidents removed, or blended in some hazy abstraction: and its passions exalted, spiritualized, and sublimed.
Page 177 - 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 306 - I observed that in proportion as our strength decayed our minds exhibited symptoms of weakness, evinced by a kind of unreasonable pettishness with each other. Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance.
Page 183 - 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 iii - Moore.— The Power of the Soul over the Body, considered in relation to Health and Morals. By GEORGE MOORE, MD, Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
Page 73 - I had experienced in former experiments. After the first six or seven inspirations, I gradually began to lose the perception of external things, and a vivid and intense recollection of some former experiments passed through my mind, so that I called out 'what an amazing concatenation of ideas!
Page 145 - It is a good thing, to have a conscience void of offence, both towards God, and towards man.