An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 2Hunt and Clarke, 1826 - 438 pages |
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... minds in their sleep , are so many predictions , which very often threaten them with future evils . Hence arise a thousand uneasy thoughts ; and where there is one man who is not subject to this weakness , there are a thousand who are ...
... minds in their sleep , are so many predictions , which very often threaten them with future evils . Hence arise a thousand uneasy thoughts ; and where there is one man who is not subject to this weakness , there are a thousand who are ...
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... mind , blinds their un- derstanding , when they compare the reasons pro and con . I have known some men of parts , who denied all presages from dreams upon this principle , - none but God , said they , know things to come , that is ...
... mind , blinds their un- derstanding , when they compare the reasons pro and con . I have known some men of parts , who denied all presages from dreams upon this principle , - none but God , said they , know things to come , that is ...
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... mind , must needs find divers obstacles in the laws , which establish these two principles , as the occasional cause of certain effects . But whence comes it , may some ask , that these invi- sible genii do not make use of a fitter time ...
... mind , must needs find divers obstacles in the laws , which establish these two principles , as the occasional cause of certain effects . But whence comes it , may some ask , that these invi- sible genii do not make use of a fitter time ...
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... minds of the sleepers , or their minds are moved of themselves , or there be any other cause , why , in our sleep , we seem to see , hear , or do any thing ; the same might be affected in those that are awake and if the gods did this ...
... minds of the sleepers , or their minds are moved of themselves , or there be any other cause , why , in our sleep , we seem to see , hear , or do any thing ; the same might be affected in those that are awake and if the gods did this ...
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... minds , rather than to those of stronger heads ? It is easily answered , that those who are awake , are not proper to be thus advertised ; for then they consider themselves as the cause of every thing that presents itself to their ...
... minds , rather than to those of stronger heads ? It is easily answered , that those who are awake , are not proper to be thus advertised ; for then they consider themselves as the cause of every thing that presents itself to their ...
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