The Theory of Dreams: In which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers and Faculties of the Human Mind, as They are Illustrated in the Most Remarkable Dreams Recorded in Sacred and Profane HistoryF.C. and J. Rivington, 1808 |
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... intimations of futurity to those who had no ground to respect them , and could derive no instruction from them , and still more unreasonable is it to suppose God to have imparted any that were calculated to confirm fallacious systems of ...
... intimations of futurity to those who had no ground to respect them , and could derive no instruction from them , and still more unreasonable is it to suppose God to have imparted any that were calculated to confirm fallacious systems of ...
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... intimations may be farther illustrated by other relations when Croesus dreamed that his accomplished son Atys was transfixed by a javelin headed by * Herod . L. iii . Camerar . Oper . Subsec . Cent . 2. C. 57 . t Claudian . L. ii . iron ...
... intimations may be farther illustrated by other relations when Croesus dreamed that his accomplished son Atys was transfixed by a javelin headed by * Herod . L. iii . Camerar . Oper . Subsec . Cent . 2. C. 57 . t Claudian . L. ii . iron ...
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... intimation . Themis- tocles , we are told , avoided the city in obe- dience to the suggestion , and thereby escaped the Pisidians , who had been engaged by Epixia the Persian to assassinate him * ; and in grate- ful memory of the ...
... intimation . Themis- tocles , we are told , avoided the city in obe- dience to the suggestion , and thereby escaped the Pisidians , who had been engaged by Epixia the Persian to assassinate him * ; and in grate- ful memory of the ...
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... intimation of victory , as the Magi misinterpreted the fallacious omen . In the latter the same phantom remonstrated with Artabanus for endeavouring to prevent the execution of the design . Some writers consider this as the invention of ...
... intimation of victory , as the Magi misinterpreted the fallacious omen . In the latter the same phantom remonstrated with Artabanus for endeavouring to prevent the execution of the design . Some writers consider this as the invention of ...
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... A belief in the reality of such intimations has very commonly obtained ; but upon an ac- curate consideration of the accounts conveyed to us from antiquity 70 CHAPTER VI On ancient Dreams, connected with impending Death.
... A belief in the reality of such intimations has very commonly obtained ; but upon an ac- curate consideration of the accounts conveyed to us from antiquity 70 CHAPTER VI On ancient Dreams, connected with impending Death.
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accounts Æneid affected afterwards Amphiaraus ancient appears apprehension arts awake beheld bishop body Cæsar ceived CHAPTER character Cicero circumstances conceive considered credulity death deity Dion divine dreams duke emperor engaged Euripides evil excited eyes faculties fancy fate favour fear fictions Fulgosius furnished future events Glaphyra God's heathen Hecuba historian Holinshed Homer human mind idea images imagination imparted impressions influence informs Insomnium inspired dreams instruction intimations Julius Cæsar king Lord Lorenzo de Medici Macrobius mentioned mind in sleep morning mother nations nature Nicholas Wotton night night mare objects observed occasion persons Petrarch Plutarch powers predicted pretensions preternatural probably produced prophetic reflections regarded Religio Medici remarkable reported represented revelation Roman says scenes second sight seems sensations Sir George Villiers Sir Thomas slept slumbers soul spirit superstition supposed temple things tion told truth Vespasian Virgil visions Wanley's Wonders Wotton writers
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Страница 30 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.
Страница 125 - Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Страница 114 - Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker...
Страница 114 - Behold, he put no trust in his servants ; And his angels he charged with folly : How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth 1 They are destroyed from morning to evening : They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Страница 111 - And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
Страница 113 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Страница 109 - I remember I am not alone; and therefore forget not to contemplate him and his attributes, who is ever with me, especially those two mighty ones, his wisdom and eternity.
Страница 76 - Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell. When nature rests Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Страница 117 - Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes ; When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes: Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A mob of cobblers, and a court of kings: Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad : Both are the reasonable soul run mad : And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be.
Страница 78 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.