Philosophical Miscellanies on Various Subjects: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Author, and His Works, by HimselfJ. Hinton, 1759 - 286 páginas |
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... Lives lie at Stake , Sleep be- comes too strong even for Self - preferva- tion . It may not be amifs here to enliven the Subject with Virgil's elegant Defcrip- tion of this State : Jam Jamque fere mediam cæli nox humida metam Contigerat ...
... Lives lie at Stake , Sleep be- comes too strong even for Self - preferva- tion . It may not be amifs here to enliven the Subject with Virgil's elegant Defcrip- tion of this State : Jam Jamque fere mediam cæli nox humida metam Contigerat ...
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... Lives are rather Machines than animal Crea- tures . The Animality is buried in the Death of Sleep , but the Life of the first Machine is continual and permanent . From this State of the Body in Sleep , many Poets and Orators have called ...
... Lives are rather Machines than animal Crea- tures . The Animality is buried in the Death of Sleep , but the Life of the first Machine is continual and permanent . From this State of the Body in Sleep , many Poets and Orators have called ...
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... live , as it were , a mere vegetable Life , if that may be called Living ; fo ingenioufly_cruel hath Am- bition made Mankind . In that Empire , a new So- vereign ufually kills all his younger Brothers , pre- ferving his own Offspring ...
... live , as it were , a mere vegetable Life , if that may be called Living ; fo ingenioufly_cruel hath Am- bition made Mankind . In that Empire , a new So- vereign ufually kills all his younger Brothers , pre- ferving his own Offspring ...
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... Lives of the Orientals . Now it is certain , that Opium augments the Agitation of the Blood , and determines it towards the Brain , as only the Smell of it promotes Sweat , and ftimulates to Luft ; both which proceed from an Increase of ...
... Lives of the Orientals . Now it is certain , that Opium augments the Agitation of the Blood , and determines it towards the Brain , as only the Smell of it promotes Sweat , and ftimulates to Luft ; both which proceed from an Increase of ...
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... Lives . With the preceding Vege- tables are claffed the Mandragora , Man- drake Apples ; though it is attefted , that feveral Perfons , and , among others , a Pro- feffor feffor of Paris , eat of them in public Af- 34 Effay on Sleep .
... Lives . With the preceding Vege- tables are claffed the Mandragora , Man- drake Apples ; though it is attefted , that feveral Perfons , and , among others , a Pro- feffor feffor of Paris , eat of them in public Af- 34 Effay on Sleep .
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Página 47 - Macbeth does murder sleep — the innocent sleep — Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve 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.
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