 ... their lives, but have, in general, been remarkable for subtlety and acuteness. Defects in their reasonings have seldom been traceable — the disease consisting in the delusive sources of thought: — all their deductions, within the scope of their...  Principles of Forensic Medicine - Page 199by William Augustus Guy, David Ferrier - 1875 - 703 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leonard Shelford - 1833 - 964 pages
...founded upon the immoveable assumption of matters as realities, either without any foundation whatsoever, or so distorted and disfigured by fancy, as to be nearly the same thing as its creation. It is true, indeed, that in some, perhaps in many cases, the human mind is stormed in... | |
 | I. RAY, M.D. - 1838
...thought:—all their deductions, within the scope of their malady, being founded on the immovable assumptions of matters as realities, either without any foundation...as to be nearly the same thing as their creation." Instead therefore of making that kind of some of those exhibitions of presumptuous ignorance, which... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1846 - 64 pages
...deductions from the immovable assumption ol maiters as realities, either without any foundation whaiever, or so distorted and disfigured by fancy as to be nearly the same thing as their creations. The learned men here, have given us many illustrations of such delusions ; as that of the... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1848 - 516 pages
...delusion. Erskine there defined a delusion to consist in deductions from the immovable assumption of the matters as realities, either without any foundation...to be nearly the same thing as their creation. The learned men here have given us many illustrations of such delusions; as that of the man who believes... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1848 - 510 pages
...Erskinc there defined a delusion to consist in deductions from the immovable assumption of the matters ax realities, either without any foundation whatever, or so distorted and disfigured by fancy a» to be nearly the same thing as their creation. The learned men here have given us many illustrations... | |
 | Isaac Ray - 1853 - 550 pages
...thought: — all their deductions, within the scope of their malady, being founded on the immovable assumption of matters as realities, either without...as to be nearly the same thing as their creation." Instead therefore of making that kind of insanity which would exempt from punishment to consist in... | |
 | Isaac Ray - 1853 - 554 pages
...thought: — all their deductions, within the scope of their malady, being founded on the immovable assumption of matters as realities, either without...as to 'be nearly the same thing as their creation." Instead therefore of making that kind of insanity which would exempt from punishment to consist in... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1853 - 658 pages
...Erskine there defined a delusion to consist in deductions from the immovable assumption of matters at realities, either without any foundation whatever,...to be nearly the same thing as their creation. The learned men here have given us many illustrations of such delusions ; as that of the man who believes... | |
 | John Charles Bucknill - 1856 - 80 pages
...being founded on the r *4.1 T immovable assumptions of matters as realities, either ^without any LJ foundation whatever, or so distorted and disfigured...to be nearly the same thing as their creation." The test of delusion was thus for the first time laid down, and, though in itself delusive from its want... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1871 - 372 pages
...thought—all their deductions within the scope of their malady being founded on immoveable assumptions of matters as realities either without any foundation...as to be nearly the same thing as their creation." This not only shows what it was quoted to indicate, but it also shows that in the legal profession... | |
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