 ... such accident, as that the sleeper has been wandering through a wood, and received a severe wound from a spear, or the tooth of a wild animal, which at the same instant awakens him. A gun fired in one instance, during the alarm of invasion, made a...  The World and Its Inhabitants - Pągina 228per Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 328 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1835 - 252 pągines
...instance, during the alarm of invasion, made a military man at once dream the enemy had landed, so that he ran to his post, and repairing to the scene...present when the first discharge took place, which also the same moment awakened him.* Now these facts show the infinite rapidity of * The ingenious Eastern... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1835 - 252 pągines
...terminated as the sleep itself was, by the continuation — the last portion of the same impression. Mark what was done in an instant — in a mere point of time. The sensation of the pain or noise of beginning is conveyed to the mind, and sets it a thinking of many things connected with such sensations.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835
...instance, during the alarm of invasion, made a military man at once dream the enemy liad landed, so that he ran to his post, and repairing to the scene of aclicri, was present when the first discharge took place, which also the same moment awakened him.... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836
...instance, during the alarm of invasion, made a military man at once dream the enemy had landed, so that he ran to his post, and repairing to the scene...of thought." " Mark," he says, "what was done in an instant—in a mere point of time. The sensation of the pain or noise, beginning, is conveyed to the... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839
...instance, during the alarm of invasion, made a military man at once dream the enemy had landed, so that he ran to his post, and repairing to the scene...place, which also at the same moment awakened him." * Edinburgh Encyclopedia, — Article, Blacklock. From these facts, Lord Brougham infers, " the infinite... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839
...instance, during the alarm of an invasion, made a military man at once dream the enemy had landed, so that he ran to his post, and repairing to the scene...present when the first discharge took place, which also the same moment awakened him. x Mind and Organization. Ibid. p. 115. ' The body is constantly undergoing... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 360 pągines
...instance, during the alarm of an invasion, made a military man at once dream the enemy had landed, so that he ran to his post, and repairing to the scene...present when the first discharge took place, which also the same moment awakened him. Ibid, p. 115. ' Mind and Organization. The body is constantly undergoing... | |
 | Henry Duncan (D.D.) - 1847 - 393 pągines
...moment awakened him.' * Edinburgh Encyclopedia, — Article Blacklock. From these and other similar facts, Lord Brougham infers, the infinite rapidity...noise beginning, is conveyed to the mind, and sets it a thinking of many things connected with such sensations. But that sensation is lost or forgotten,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847
...instance, during the alarm of invasion, made a military man at once dream the enemy had landed, so that he ran to his post, and repairing to the scene...place, which also at the same moment awakened him." • Edinburgh Encyclopedia, — Article, Blacklock, .' From these facts, Lord Brougham infers, " the... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1848
...instance, during the alarm of invasion, made a military man at once dream the enemy had landed, so that he ran to his post, and repairing to the scene...also at the same moment awakened him." From these and other similar facts Lord Brougham infers, " the infinite rapidity of thought." " Mark," he says,... | |
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