 | Periodicals - 1781 - 392 pages
...accounted for in the fame manner : and, therefore, when we have an uncommon dream, we ought not to look forward with apprehenfion, as if it were to be the...fore-runner of calamity ; but rather backward, to fee whether we can difcover its caufe, and whether, from fuch a difcovery, we may not learn fomething that... | |
 | James Beattie - Aesthetics - 1783 - 862 pages
...which they put in his hand for that purpofe, and which, by the explofion awaked him. When therefore we have an uncommon dream, •we ought to look, —...out its caufe, and whether we may not, from fuch a jdifcovery, learn fomething that may be profitable to us. — I dream, for example, that fome of my... | |
 | 1783 - 424 pages
...When we have an uncommon dream, we ought to look — not forward with apprehenfion, as if it were tobe the forerunner of calamity, but rather backward, to fee if we can trace out its caufe, awd whether we may not, from fuch a difcovery, learn fomething that may be profitable to us. I dream,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 262 pages
...manner; and therefore, when we have an uncommon dream, we ought not to look forward with apprehension, as if it were to be the forerunner of calamity ; but rather backward, to see whether we can discover its cause, and whether, from such a discovery, we may not learn something... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 354 pages
...manner : and therefore, when we have an uncommon dream, we ought not to look forward with apprehension, as if it were to be the forerunner of calamity ; but rather backward to see whether we can discover its cause, and whether from such a discovery, we may not learn something... | |
 | 1822 - 356 pages
...manner ; and therefore, when we have an uncommon dream, we ought not to look forward with apprehension, as if it were to be the forerunner of calamity; but rather backward, to see whether we can discover its cause, and whether, from such a discovery, we may not learn something... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 340 pages
...manner; and therefore, when we .have an uncommon dream, we ought not to look forward with apprehension, as if it were to be the forerunner of calamity ; but rather backward, to see whether we can discover its cause, and whether, from such a discovery, we may not learn something... | |
 | Hygiene - 1832 - 402 pages
...Beattie on dreaming. When we have an uncommon dream, we ought to look — not forward with apprehension, as if it were to be the forerunner of calamity; but rather backward, to see if we can trace out its cause, and whether we may not, from such a discovery, learn something that... | |
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... dream of going naked. Of all these facts I have often had experience; and, if the thing could be accurately attended to, I make no doubt but many of our dreams might be accounted for in the same manner; and therefore, when we have an uncommon dream,... 