 Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above...  Select British Classics - Pàgina 691803Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1831 - 370 pàgines
...observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves. For then the soul, beginning to be freed from the...herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality. We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pàgines
...sometimes upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves. For then the soul begins to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins...herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality. XII. We term sleep a death ; and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are... | |
 | 1832 - 308 pàgines
...hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves: for then the soul, beginning; to he freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason...greater strength when we are asleep than when we are awake. Joy and sorrow give us mbre vigorous sensations of pain or pleasure at this time than at any... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pàgines
...observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be free'd from the...herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality." 11. We may likewise observe, in the third place, that the passions affect the mind with greater strength... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pàgines
...upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul begins tp be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to...herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality." Professor Stewart very justly remarks, that the attributes or qualities of the mind and the body are... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pàgines
...sometimes,7 upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves. For then the soul begins to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins...herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality. SECT. XIl. — We term sleep a death ;s and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 pàgines
...soul feels herself more akin to heaven ; and, soaring upward, the denizen of her native sky, she " begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality." Call, if you will, such thoughts and feelings the dreams of the imagination ; yet they are no unprofitable... | |
 | John Campbell Colquhoun - 1836 - 454 pàgines
...upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves. For then the soul being near freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason...herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality." — Sir THOMAS BROWN, Religio Medici. The latest English work I have seen upon this subject is the... | |
 | 1836 - 748 pàgines
...it. May 11. Looked over the 5th volume of Kurd's edition of Addison. Addison remarks (Spectator 487) that the passions affect the mind with greater strength when we are asleep than when we are awake, and seems to consider it as part of a general principle, that the mind beeomes agile and perfect... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pàgines
...observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; fcr then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments...greater strength when we are asleep than when we are awake. Joy and sorrow give us more vigorous sensations of pain or pleasure at this time than any other.... | |
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