Home and Social Philosophy: Or, Chapters on Every-day Topics, Том 1G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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Стр. 19 - On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved.
Стр. 21 - 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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or, however,...
Стр. 15 - A remarkable circumstance in this case was, that after these experiments he had no distinct recollection of his dreams, but only a confused feeling of oppression or fatigue ; and used to tell his friends that he .was sure they had been playing some trick upon him.
Стр. 131 - It was on the first of January this year, while contending with the difficulties nature imposed in different forms to our progress up the river Berbice (in British Guiana), that we arrived at a point where the river expanded, and formed a currentless basin ; some object on the southern extremity of this basin attracted my attention ; it was impossible to form any idea what it could be, and animating the crew to increase the rate of their paddling, we were shortly...
Стр. 21 - Gabriel took Mahomet out of his bed one morning to give him a sight of all things in the seven heavens, in paradise, and in hell, which the prophet took a distinct view of; and after having held ninety thousand conferences with God, was brought back again to his bed.
Стр. 69 - ... large and beautiful trees to which it owes its name ; spreading their strong, broad shadow over the turf beneath, and sending, on a summer afternoon, their rich, spicy fragrance half across the irregular village green, dappled with wood and water, and gay with sheep, cattle, and children...
Стр. 257 - Rain being elicited by heat from water, will, of course, abound most where the sun is hottest The average yearly fall of rain between the tropics is ninety-five inches, but in the temperate zone only thirty-five. The greatest rain-fall, however, is precipitated in the shortest time — tropical clouds like to get it over, and have done with it.
Стр. 170 - Dr. Solander, and happily succeeded : but, though he had not slept five minutes, he had almost lost the use of his limbs, and the muscles were so shrunk that his shoes fell from his feet : he consented to go forward with such assistance as could be given him, but no attempts to relieve poor Richmond were successful.
Стр. 177 - ... or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, that peradventure lay seldom in a bed of down or whole feathers...
Стр. 165 - It is a delicious moment certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep.