 | J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, James William White, Edward Cameron Kirk, Lovick Pierce Anthony - 1872
...Discovery.) " Universal Metamorphosis. — If a wafer be laid on a surface of polished metal, \^hich is then breathed upon, and if, when the moisture of...on record of ignorant women, in states of insanity, utter** ing Greek and Hebrew phrases, which in past years they have heard their masters utter, without,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1874 - 524 pages
...into prominence, just as the spectral image of the key started into sight on the application of heat. We are involved in the universal metamorphosis. Nothing...tone we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it. As De Quincey expresses it: " There is no such thing a.?, forgetting possible to the human mind." 2... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...highly phosphorescent than paper, the spectres of many different objects which may have been laid on in succession will, on warming, emerge in their proper...true of our bodies and our minds. We are involved in tho universal metamorphosis. Nothing leaves us wholly as it found us. Every man we meet, every book... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 pages
...on a plate of hot metal, and the specter of the key will appear. This is equally true of our minds. Every man we meet, every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, leaves its image on our brain. These traces, which under ordinary circumstances are invisible, never... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 pages
...on a plate of hot metal, and the specter of the key will appear. This is equally true of our minds. Every man we meet, every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, leaves its image on our brain. These traces, which under ordinary circumstances are invisible, never... | |
 | 1888 - 832 pages
...a plate of hot metal, the specter of the key will again appear. This is equally true of our minds. Every man we meet, every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, leaves its image on the brain. These traces, which under ordinary circumstances are invisible, never... | |
 | 1892 - 808 pages
...reproof" — that " he is nobody's enemy but his own." This cannot be. It has been truly said that " nothing leaves us wholly as it found us. Every man...we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it." This being so, every man makes every man with whom he conies in contact better or worse, and as every... | |
 | George Eliot - 2001 - 164 pages
...the wondrous process of 'universal metamorphosis' in which we are all involved: 'Nothing leaves us as it found us. Every man we meet, every book we read,...tone we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it.'37 Thus an uneducated servant girl can be found during delirium to be muttering Greek she had unwittingly... | |
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... spectre of the key will be visible. Let this paper be put aside for many months where nothing can disturb it, and then in darkness be laid on a plate of hot metal — the spectre of the key will again appear. In the case of bodies more highly phosphorescent... 