Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers, and the Investigation of Truth

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R. B. Collins, 1850 - 284 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 206 - forgotten a matter which is now of a very old date; but you may call it to his recollection by this token, that when I came to pay his account, there was difficulty in getting change for a Portugal piece of gold, and that we were forced to drink out the balance at a tavern.
Pàgina 205 - Narrate all the circumstances. men are not surprised at such apparitions. Mr. R. 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
Pàgina 259 - fitted up with articles of armor, skins of wild animals, and the like. It was when laying down his book, and passing into this hall, through which the moon was beginning to shine, that the individual of whom I speak saw right before him, and in a standing posture, the
Pàgina 216 - which had exceedingly perplexed him; and that he would give any thing to recover the train of thought which had passed before him in his dream. She then directed him to the writing-desk, where he found the opinion clearly and fully written out, and which was afterward found to be perfectly correct.
Pàgina 92 - able to speak, and discovered strong emotions of pleasure in her countenance, probably from a sudden association of all her early domestic connections and enjoyments with the words which I uttered. From that time she began to recover. She is now living, and seldom fails, when we meet, to salute me with the
Pàgina 218 - a window to the roof of the building. He there tore in pieces a magpie's -nest, wrapped the young birds in his cloak, returned to his apartment, and went to bed. In the morning he mentioned the circumstances as having occurred in a dream, and could not be persuaded that there
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Pàgina 259 - representation of his departed friend, whose recollection had been so strongly brought to his imagination. He stopped for a single moment, so as to notice the wonderful accuracy with which fancy had impressed upon the bodily eye the peculiarities of dress and posture of the illustrious poet. Sensible, however, of the delusion, he felt no sentiment save that of wonder at the extraordinary accuracy
Pàgina 118 - in this manner, when he wanted coals put upon his fire» always called for paper, and when he wanted paper, called for coals ; and these words he always used in the same manner. In other cases, the patient seems to invent names, using words which to a stranger are quite unintelligible
Pàgina 205 - father, who had been many years dead, appeared to him, he thought, and asked him why he was disturbed in his mind. In dreams Knowledge of languages revived in dreams. Example. Anecdote related by Walter

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