 | David Thomas - 674 pages
...every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it. There are cases on record of...conditions, they were invisible ; but these traces remained there, and in the intense light of cerebral excitement, they started into prominence, just... | |
 | 1857 - 400 pages
...every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it. There are cases on record of...excitement they started into prominence, just as the spectral image of the key started into sight on the application of heat. It is thus with all the influences... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1860 - 160 pages
...every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it. There are cases on record of...Greek and Hebrew phrases, which in past years they had heard their masters utter, without, of course, comprehending them. These tones had long been forgotten;... | |
 | 1865 - 388 pages
...every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it. There are cases on record of...tones had long been forgotten ; the traces were so famt that, under ordinary conditions, they were invisible ; but these traces were there, and in the... | |
 | J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, James William White, Edward Cameron Kirk, Lovick Pierce Anthony - 1872
...every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it. There are cases 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,... | |
 | 1866 - 374 pages
...every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it. There are cases on record of...utter, without, of course, comprehending them. These toaos had long been forgotten ; the traces were so faint that, under ordinary conditions, they were... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1874 - 524 pages
...kind." This permanence of impressions, true of our bodies, is more emphatically true of our minds. There are cases on record of ignorant women, in states...without, of course, comprehending them. These tones have long been forgotten; the traces were so faint that, under ordinary conditions, they were invisible;... | |
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... on warming, emerge in their proper order. This is equally true of our bodies and our minds. We are involved in the universal metamorphosis. Nothing leaves us wholly as it found us. Every man we meet, every book we read, every picture or landscape... 