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a a pursued with such success , that the lunatics boast with pride that they have beaten some of the prize - holders of the outer world . It might be supposed that intellectual striving was not the medicine to offer to a diseased brain ...
a a pursued with such success , that the lunatics boast with pride that they have beaten some of the prize - holders of the outer world . It might be supposed that intellectual striving was not the medicine to offer to a diseased brain ...
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A still more convincing proof that mental ruin springs rather from mental torpidity than from mental stimulation , is to be found by comparing the proportion of lunatics to the population in the rural and the manufacturing districts .
A still more convincing proof that mental ruin springs rather from mental torpidity than from mental stimulation , is to be found by comparing the proportion of lunatics to the population in the rural and the manufacturing districts .
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Still the fact remains that within a period of eight years , extending from 1847 to 1855 , an increase of 64 per cent . took place in our pauper lunatic asylums . These figures , however , afford no more proof of the increase of pauper ...
Still the fact remains that within a period of eight years , extending from 1847 to 1855 , an increase of 64 per cent . took place in our pauper lunatic asylums . These figures , however , afford no more proof of the increase of pauper ...
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Henry Bradbury with full descriptions of their different | 57 |
Odyssea London 1849 | 80 |
Character of the Rat and its cruel Cost to the Nation | 123 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 101 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1857 |
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