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" The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable... "
Principles of Mental Physiology: With Their Applications to the Training and ... - Page 646
by William Benjamin Carpenter - 1874 - 737 pages
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did...night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience....
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to -receive ; space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did...or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were...
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The North American Review, Volume 18

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 pages
...proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb...expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium...
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information

William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive; space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did...; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in thd time, or, however, of a duration far bas yond the limits of any human experience....
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The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...proportions so \ast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive; space swe'led, and was amplified to an lord Whartou is stirring." Yet Steele, gifted at all...finest feelings of the heart ; the same generosity o nicht; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in thd time, or, however, of...
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The Philosophy of Sleep

Robert Macnish - 1834 - 362 pages
...proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night; nay,...
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The Philosophy of Sleep

Robert Macnish - 1834 - 310 pages
...proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay,...
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The Chinese Repository, Volume 9

Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1840 - 680 pages
...proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This however did not...; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a milleninm passed in that time or however, of a duration far beyond the limits of my human experience....
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Outlines of Imperfect and Disordered Mental Action

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1840 - 420 pages
...itself in his dreams. After saying that space was amplified to an unutterable infinity, he adds : " This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast...expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night. Nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a miltennium...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 608 pages
...proportions so vast as tho Itodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and WHS amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did...expansion of time : I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or one hundred years in one night.'* After remarking that Southern Asia in general, the cradle...
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