Chapters on Mental PhysiologyLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 - 347 pagina's |
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Pagina 58 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell. When nature rests Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Pagina 340 - As for the possibility, they are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Pagina 196 - It has been a familiar remark that in certain states of mental derangement, as well as in some cases of hysteria which border closely upon it, there appear, as it were, two minds; one tending to correct by more just perceptions, feelings, and volitions, the aberrations of the other; and the relative power of these influences varying at different times.
Pagina 217 - Stays till we call, and then not often near; But honest instinct comes a volunteer, Sure never to o'ershoot, but just to hit ; While still too wide or short is human wit; Sure by quick nature happiness to gain, Which heavier reason labours at in vain.
Pagina 15 - Sleep, then, in the most general and correct sense of the term, must be regarded not as one single state, but a succession of states in constant variation; — this variation consisting, not only in the different degrees in which the same sense or faculty is submitted to it ; but also in the different proportions in which these several powers are under its influence at the same time.
Pagina 336 - ... energy amongst those engaged in the profession. The deficiency just stated is greater, perhaps, than any other, and more difficult of redress; but time and various new means and appliances are in our hands, and it would be an injury done to the cause of science to doubt their effects. A very special advantage we now possess consists In the application of numerical methods and averages to the history of disease; thereby, giving it the same course and certainty of result which belong to statistical...
Pagina 167 - I descended on the same day two very deep mines in the Hartz Mountains, remaining some hours under ground in each. While in the second mine, and exhausted both from fatigue and inanition, I felt the utter impossibility of talking longer with the German Inspector who accompanied me. Every German word and phrase deserted my recollection ; and it was not until I had taken food and wine, and been...
Pagina 140 - There is a kind of restiveness in almost every one's mind ; sometimes without perceiving the cause, it will boggle and stand still, and one cannot get it a step forward: and at another time it will press forward, and there is no holding it in.
Pagina 165 - I have seen some striking and melancholy instances of the exhaustion of the youthful mind by this over exercise of its faculties. In two of these unattended with paralytic affection or other obvious bodily disorder than a certain sluggishness in the natural functions, the torpor of mind approached almost to imbecility.
Pagina 198 - He explored in his work what he termed 'double consciousness', 'where the mind passes by alternation from one state to another, each having the perception of external impressions and appropriate trains of thought, but not linked together by the ordinary gradations, or by mutual memory'.