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Page 241
The reader will , I trust , excuse this tribute of recollection to a man , whose severities , even now , not seldom furnish the dreams by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensatious of distempered sleep ...
The reader will , I trust , excuse this tribute of recollection to a man , whose severities , even now , not seldom furnish the dreams by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensatious of distempered sleep ...
Page 248
Perceiving that he is oppressed with the weight of his crimes , and in a state of mind bordering upon despair , he obtains an introduction to his privacy , as a pilgrim priest , who had visited the Holy Land . In this sacred character ...
Perceiving that he is oppressed with the weight of his crimes , and in a state of mind bordering upon despair , he obtains an introduction to his privacy , as a pilgrim priest , who had visited the Holy Land . In this sacred character ...
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That the mind assumes ( if we may so speak ) the hue of the images presented to it , is beyond doubt ; a succession of gay or gloomy images will consequently produce corresponding impressions ; hence , ( so nobly refined the mechanism ...
That the mind assumes ( if we may so speak ) the hue of the images presented to it , is beyond doubt ; a succession of gay or gloomy images will consequently produce corresponding impressions ; hence , ( so nobly refined the mechanism ...
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