A Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions Upon Disorders of the Body: Being the Essay to which the Fothergillian Medal was AdjudgedC. Dilly, 1788 - 105 pages |
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... Anger in the first - born hu- man Being , who affords an example of " wrath of the most implacable nature- " the religious wrath of one brother , prose- " cuting another unto murder ! preceded by all the groveling fufpicions of fupe ...
... Anger in the first - born hu- man Being , who affords an example of " wrath of the most implacable nature- " the religious wrath of one brother , prose- " cuting another unto murder ! preceded by all the groveling fufpicions of fupe ...
Page xii
... anger had " fubfided ; who ran to meet him , and " embraced him , and fell on his neck , and r kiffed him , and they wept . * The picture " indeed for ftrength of colouring for the " chafte union of strong and tender paffions , " is not ...
... anger had " fubfided ; who ran to meet him , and " embraced him , and fell on his neck , and r kiffed him , and they wept . * The picture " indeed for ftrength of colouring for the " chafte union of strong and tender paffions , " is not ...
Page xiii
... Anger , a " fubject already mentioned , which accele- " rates the motion of the blood , and de- " termines its impetus to the head and fuperior parts , is one of the most violent " and vigorous paffions of the mind : it glows in the eye ...
... Anger , a " fubject already mentioned , which accele- " rates the motion of the blood , and de- " termines its impetus to the head and fuperior parts , is one of the most violent " and vigorous paffions of the mind : it glows in the eye ...
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... anger , and terminated in " phrenitis , apoplexy , mania , or fuicide " Love , the most universal and grateful " paffion of human nature , which , in general , " neither << * neither affumes the violence of anger , nor [ xiv ]
... anger , and terminated in " phrenitis , apoplexy , mania , or fuicide " Love , the most universal and grateful " paffion of human nature , which , in general , " neither << * neither affumes the violence of anger , nor [ xiv ]
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... anger , nor " finks into the depreffion of grief , may be " confidered as a temperate paffion ; but in " its viciffitudes and extremes , acquires the impetuofity of the firft , or the defpondency " of the latter , like the fury of ...
... anger , nor " finks into the depreffion of grief , may be " confidered as a temperate paffion ; but in " its viciffitudes and extremes , acquires the impetuofity of the firft , or the defpondency " of the latter , like the fury of ...
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