An Inquiry Concerning the Indications of Insanity: With Suggestions for the Better Protection and Care of the Insane

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J. Taylor, 1830 - Insanity - 496 pages
2000, Gift of the South Carolina State Hospital.
 

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Page 312 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Page 93 - Yes, Sir; if a man were to go by chance at the same time with Burke under a shed, to shun a shower, he would say — 'this is an extraordinary man.
Page 85 - The figure of the deceased person never appeared to me after the first dreadful day; but several other figures showed themselves afterwards very distinctly ; sometimes such as I knew, mostly, however, of persons I did not know...
Page 39 - Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them, it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to enquire into.
Page 283 - In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them ; but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all...
Page 93 - Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.
Page 130 - Did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment overcame ; His judgment like the heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty sea below.
Page 282 - ... seem to suffer by the other extreme, for they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but, having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles, for by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make right deductions from them.
Page 93 - London retained the power of comparison: they compared the visual objects of delusion with the impressions of other senses," and the perceptions of other persons, and became convinced of their unreality. "This is exactly what madmen cannot do. One form of madness consists in this very illusion of sense, but it is conjoined with the loss or defect of the comparing power, and the madman concludes that what is only an illusion is a reality. But the illusion is not the madness.
Page 180 - Author. You say well. But no man of honour, genius, or spirit would make the mere love of gain the chief, far less the only, purpose of his labours. For myself, I am not displeased to find the game a winning one; yet while I pleased the public, I should probably continue it merely for the pleasure of playing...

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