Manual of Psychometry: The Dawn of a New CivilizationJoseph R. Buchanan, 1885 - 500 oldal |
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162. oldal - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
212. oldal - But she told me that, in all that she considered her best writing, there was a " not herself," which took possession of her, and that she felt her own personality to be merely the instrument through which this spirit, as it were, was acting.
168. oldal - It has happened to me, sometimes, on my first meeting with strangers, as I listened silently to their discourse, that their former life, with many trifling circumstances therewith connected, or frequently some particular scene in that life, has passed quite involuntarily, and, as it were, dream-like, yet perfectly distinct, before me.
212. oldal - Continuous thought did not fatigue her. She could keep her mind on the stretch hour after hour : the body might give way, but the brain remained unwearied.
170. oldal - I were correct in my information, to admit it frankly. I then related what my vision had shown me, and the whole company were made acquainted with the private history of the young merchant; his school years, his youthful errors, and, lastly, with a fault committed in reference to the strong box of his principal.
203. oldal - ... which she was accustomed to hear in the house where she now lived; and she then also began to sing, imitating exactly the voices of several ladies of the family. In another year from this time she began to talk a great deal in her sleep, in which she seemed to fancy herself instructing a younger companion.
168. oldal - I undesignedly look, nor distinctly hear the voices of the speakers, which before served in some measure as a commentary to the text of their features. For a long time I held such visions as delusions of the fancy, and the more so as they showed me even the dress and motions of the actors, rooms, furniture, and other accessories.
171. oldal - earthy." The pall of materalism has covered these recent centuries so darkly as to shut out the dawning light that once shone in Judea. Did not Jesus look into men's souls and tell them of their coming deeds, did he not tell the woman of Samaria of her five husbands? Did she not say : " Come and see a man who told me all things that ever I did...
77. oldal - You, Monsieur de Condorcet, you will yield up your last breath on the floor of a dungeon ; — you will die from poison, which you will have taken, in order to escape from execution, — from poison which the happiness of that time will oblige you to carry about your person.
212. oldal - between Dorothea and Rosamond, saying that, although she always knew they had, sooner or later, to come together, she kept the idea resolutely out of her mind until Dorothea was in Rosamond's drawing-room. Then, abandoning herself to the inspiration of the moment, she wrote the whole scene exactly as it stands, without alteration or erasure, in an intense state of excitement and agitation, feeling herself entirely possessed by the feelings of the two women.