 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pàgines
...the stage. ADDISON. Men sometimes upon the hour of departure do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, reasons like herself, and discourses in a strain above mortality. ADDISON. Dread of death hangs over... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 480 pàgines
...Browne, " 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." And says Victor Hugo, " There is a dilatation peculiar to the vicinity of the tomb ; and to be near... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 368 pàgines
...speak and reason above themselves, for then the soul, beginning to bo freed from the ligaments of tho body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality." — Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, part ii. chap. 11. " Dreams," says Addison, " are an instance... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 528 pàgines
...the 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 pàgines
...of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul beginning to be fre'.td from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like...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.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pàgines
...the stage. ADDISON. Men sometimes upon the hour of departure do speak and reason above themselves ; oubt reasons like herself, and discourses in a strain above mortality. ADDISON. Dread of death hangs over... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1880 - 394 pàgines
...Was she resigning to the lover the mother's jealous rights in her wilful pet ? In these last hours the soul, ' beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body,' rises into a finer air, and sees right and wrong, the true and the false, the noble and the ignoble,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1436 pàgines
...Was she resigning to the lover the mother's jealous rights in her wilful pet ? In these last hours the soul, ' beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body,' rises into a finer air, and sees right and wrong, the true and the false, the noble and the ignoble,... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pàgines
...observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves. , term sleep a death ; and yet it Is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1881 - 648 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 ligaments of the body, begins to reason like her self, and to discourse in a strain above mortality. • -t SECT. xn. We term sleep a death ; and... | |
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