| David Thomas - 674 pages
...darkness be laid on a plate of hot metal — the spectre of the key will again appear. In the cases of bodies more highly phosphorescent than paper, the...utter, without, of course, comprehending them. These tones had long been forgotten ; the traces were so faint that, under ordinary conditions, they were... | |
| 1857 - 400 pages
...1,2.) (1 Chron. ii. 14.) (John i. 47.) (1 Sam. xxv. 18 to 36.) (1 Chron. vi. 29 and 31.) (Mai. iii. 1.) again we breathe, and the moisture evaporates, but...utter, without, of course, comprehending them. These tones had long been forgotten ; the traces were so faint that, under ordinary conditions, they were... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1860 - 166 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...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;... | |
| 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,... | |
| 1865 - 372 pages
...metamorphosis. Nothing leaves us wholly as it found us. Every man we meet, every book we read, everv picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, mingles with oar being and modifies it. There are cases on record of ignorant women, in states of insanity, uttering... | |
| 1866 - 368 pages
...from some foreign ingredients iu the cotton. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. THE UNIVERSAL METAMORPHOSIS. IF a wafer be laid on a surface of polished metal, which...utter, without, of course, comprehending them. These tones had lon;g been forgotten ; the traces were so famt that, under ordinary conditions, they were... | |
| 1865 - 372 pages
...in succession will, on warming, emerge in their proper order. This is equally true of our bodies ami our minds. We are involved in the universal metamorphosis....utter, without, of course, comprehending them. These tones had long been forgotten ; the traces were so faint that, under ordinary conditions, they were... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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