Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above... Ainsworth's Magazine - Page 400edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes upon the hour...speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 408 pages
...story, and can. only relate to our awaked souls a confused and bfoken tale of that that has passed Thus it is observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their depar-J ture, do speak and reason above themselves 5 for then the soul beginning to be freed from the... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...story, and can only relate to our awaked souls, a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed that men sometimes, upon the hour...their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; 2 for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself,... | |
| Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 170 pages
...Cicero, that of Possidonius * : and Sir Thomas Browne has observed, that men sometimes, upon the hours of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul, about to be freed from the ligament of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in... | |
| Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 362 pages
...Cicero, that of Possidonius * : and Sir Thomas Browne has observed, that men sometimes, upon the hours of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, about to be freed from the ligament of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in... | |
| Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...relate to our awakened souls a confused aod hroken taU: of that that has parsed. Thus it is ohserved, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason ahove themselves; for then the soul, hegiuning to he freed from the ligamenti of the hody, hegins to... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 314 pages
...story, and can only relate to our awaked souls •A confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed that men sometimes, upon the hour...speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 pages
...story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. — Thus it is observed, that men, sometimes, upon the...speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 310 pages
...story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed that men sometimes, upon the hour...speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...Morpheus," adding also, as a proof of this " something" being likewise beyond the dominion of death, that " it is observed that men, sometimes, upon the hour...to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to.jreason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality." He then closes the subject... | |
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