Human Physiology, Statical and Dynamical, Or, The Conditions and Course of the Life of Man

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Sampson, Low, 1856 - 649 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 562 - De 1'Hospital, one of the greatest mathematicians of the age, to the English who visited him. " I represent him to myself as a celestial genius, entirely disengaged from matter.
الصفحة 417 - ... had not been able to form from them the idea of a square and a disc, until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the points of his fingers, as if he really touched the objects.
الصفحة 411 - A thrilling, extending from the chest to the extremities, was almost immediately produced. I felt a sense of tangible extension, highly pleasurable, in every limb; my visible impressions were dazzling and apparently magnified; I heard distinctly every sound in the room, and was perfectly aware of my situation.
الصفحة 308 - ... mechanically; and show no direction of object, no avoidance of danger. If the body be opposed in its progress by an obstacle of not more than half of its own height, it mounts over it, and moves directly onwards, as in its natural state ; but if the obstacle be equal to its own height, its progress is arrested, and the cut extremity of the body remains forced up against the opposing substance, the legs still continuing to move.
الصفحة 411 - I felt an inclination to communicate the discoveries I had made during the experiment. I endeavored to recall the ideas ; they were feeble and indistinct. One recollection of terms however presented itself, and, with the most intense belief and prophetic manner, I exclaimed to Dr. Kinglake, ' Nothing exists but thoughts ; the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures, and pains.' " In like manner, the intoxication that arises from alcohol has two distinct stages, depending on entirely...
الصفحة 308 - Fourth edition, p. 654, threatened or attacked, resting upon its two posterior pairs of legs, and elevating its thorax with the anterior pair, which are armed with powerful claws : now if the anterior segment of the thorax, with its attached members, be removed, the posterior part of the body will still remain balanced upon the four legs which belong to it, resisting any attempts to...
الصفحة 286 - Nay, even more ; if the polished metal be carefully put aside where nothing can deteriorate its surface, and be so kept for many months, even for a year, on breathing again upon it, the shadowy form emerges...
الصفحة 567 - ... placed near the solitary den of the Bushman, where the lean and hungry savage crouches in silence like a beast of prey...
الصفحة 405 - That as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states of the brain in one point — that whatsoever I happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary...
الصفحة 411 - I imagined that I made discoveries. When I was awakened from this semi-delirious trance by Dr. Kinglake, who took the bag from my mouth, indignation and pride were the first feelings produced by the sight of the persons about me.

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