 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 536 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and am merry with my... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and am merry with my... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 450 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse and am merry with... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and am merry with my... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1841 - 336 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with... | |
 | 1846 - 608 pages
...some avocation or ively impression of my senses, which obiterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play i game of backgammon, I converse and am merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - 510 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours 1 amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...relaxing :his bent of mind, or by some avocation or ively impression of my senses, which obiterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon,...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 588 pages
...other times, he judged very differently ; very much so, indeed. " I dine," says he, " I play a game at backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous,... | |
 | 1847 - 586 pages
...philosophical delirium, either by relaxing my bent of mind, or by some avocation, which obliterates all these chimeras. I dine. I play a game of backgammon. I converse and am merry with my friends. Yet n all the incidents of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism." (I. 102.) Deist is by... | |
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Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and... 
