Melancholy: As it Proceeds from the Disposition and Habit, the Passion of Love, and the Influence of Religion |
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... effect , it was found , to use the author's own expreffion , “ impoffible " to bring fo large a veffel into fo fmall " a creek , " without in fome degree changing its form , as well as reducing its fize , and leaving much of its very ...
... effect , it was found , to use the author's own expreffion , “ impoffible " to bring fo large a veffel into fo fmall " a creek , " without in fome degree changing its form , as well as reducing its fize , and leaving much of its very ...
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... effect of a corrupt heart ; to act well when there is nothing to fear , is the merit " of a common man ; but to act well when a man expofes him- < felf to the greateft hazards , is peculiar to the truly virtuous . " He was banished from ...
... effect of a corrupt heart ; to act well when there is nothing to fear , is the merit " of a common man ; but to act well when a man expofes him- < felf to the greateft hazards , is peculiar to the truly virtuous . " He was banished from ...
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... effects , and , by voluntarily fubjecting himself to its influence , precipitates himself into a laby- rinth of cares , until the difpofition to melancholy becomes an habitual difeafe . " A fingle diftillation , " fays Seneca , " not ...
... effects , and , by voluntarily fubjecting himself to its influence , precipitates himself into a laby- rinth of cares , until the difpofition to melancholy becomes an habitual difeafe . " A fingle diftillation , " fays Seneca , " not ...
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... effects continued create a disease . " So the indulgence of melancholy difpofitions , according to the intention or remiffion of the hu- mour which gives them birth , and in proportion as the mind is well or ill enabled to resist their ...
... effects continued create a disease . " So the indulgence of melancholy difpofitions , according to the intention or remiffion of the hu- mour which gives them birth , and in proportion as the mind is well or ill enabled to resist their ...
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... effects as images of joy or grief prefent themselves alternately to the patient's mind . B 5 When The beafts , " fays MONTAIGNE , " fhew us plainly how much our diseases are owing to the perturbations of our minds . We are told that the ...
... effects as images of joy or grief prefent themselves alternately to the patient's mind . B 5 When The beafts , " fays MONTAIGNE , " fhew us plainly how much our diseases are owing to the perturbations of our minds . We are told that the ...
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Page 253 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume...
Page 252 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page i - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 229 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 315 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there ; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 222 - Yet empty of all good wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
Page 291 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Page 266 - Alack ! there lies more peril in thine eye, Than twenty of their swords ; look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
Page 68 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Page 234 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.