Mental Hygiene; Or an Examination of the Intellect and Passions, Designed to Illustrate Their Influence on Health and the Duration of Life |
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... deep and terrible passions so frequently called forth in controversies of a reli- gious and political character , and which have so often lighted the torch of the bigot , and deluged fields in blood ? Where is the eminent statesman ...
... deep and terrible passions so frequently called forth in controversies of a reli- gious and political character , and which have so often lighted the torch of the bigot , and deluged fields in blood ? Where is the eminent statesman ...
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... deep and varying passions are more fre- quently awakened ; a morbid sensibility is encouraged , and the flame of life , exposed to such continual and unnatural excitement , must burn more unequally and waste more ra- pidly . Who does ...
... deep and varying passions are more fre- quently awakened ; a morbid sensibility is encouraged , and the flame of life , exposed to such continual and unnatural excitement , must burn more unequally and waste more ra- pidly . Who does ...
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... deep and anxious thought , and which is sometimes the effect , and sometimes the cause , of depression of spirits . Connected with this disorder of the stomach , there was a disposition to headache , affecting more especially the ...
... deep and anxious thought , and which is sometimes the effect , and sometimes the cause , of depression of spirits . Connected with this disorder of the stomach , there was a disposition to headache , affecting more especially the ...
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... deep grief by excessive joy , is , as I have seen it remarked , as irrational as it would be to expect the restoration of a frozen limb from pouring upon it hot water . Instances are not wanting where the inflation of pride , or ...
... deep grief by excessive joy , is , as I have seen it remarked , as irrational as it would be to expect the restoration of a frozen limb from pouring upon it hot water . Instances are not wanting where the inflation of pride , or ...
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... deep in- spiration , succeeded by a corresponding expiration , and thus by expanding freely the chest , and affording a larger supply of air , it alleviates , in some measure , CHAPTER XIII General Phenomena of the Painful Passions as ...
... deep in- spiration , succeeded by a corresponding expiration , and thus by expanding freely the chest , and affording a larger supply of air , it alleviates , in some measure , CHAPTER XIII General Phenomena of the Painful Passions as ...
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Page 91 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Page 42 - Nor think in Nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of Nature was the reign of God. Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man ; Pride then was not, nor arts that pride to aid ; Man walk'd with beast, joint tenant of the shade ; The same his table, and the same his bed ; No murder cloth'd him, and no murder fed.
Page 311 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 79 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 309 - From my youth upwards My spirit walk'd not with the souls of men, Nor look'd upon the earth with human eyes ; The thirst of their ambition was not mine, The aim of their existence was not mine; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger; though I'wore the form, I had no sympathy with breathing flesh, Nor midst the creatures of clay that girded me Was there but one who but of her anon.
Page 245 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Page 313 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 115 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 297 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 297 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.