 I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness ; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper...  The Monthly Review - 355. oldal1833Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 oldal
...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - 876 oldal
...Abstraction denotes a state, and, for the most part, a temporary state. He would begin the ceremony again, and having gone through it, break from his abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companions. liOSWELL. The term absent simply implies not present with one's mind, not observant of... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 oldal
...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...briskly on, and join his companion." Sir Joshua Reynolds had observed him to go a good way about, rather than cross a particular alley ; but this Sir Joshua... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 oldal
...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 oldal
...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion '. A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 oldal
...neglected, or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the... | |
 | William Leslie Davidson - 1893 - 528 oldal
...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and having gone...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion." That, again, was ,superstition, but not of the religious stamp : it arose from the discomfort of disrupted... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 oldal
...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 oldal
...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 oldal
...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the... | |
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