| 1821 - 724 pàgines
...kind: it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...distinction from medicine, is a case of acute—the setond, of chronic pleasure: the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But the main... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1862 - 608 pàgines
...not in degree only incapable, but also in kind. He thus draws the distinction between them : — " The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second of chronic pleasure ; the one is a flame, the other a steady, equable glow. But the... | |
| 1823 - 478 pàgines
...kind: it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But the main distinction lies in this, that whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium, on the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 pàgines
...: it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But the n.ain distinction lies in this, that whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium, on the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pàgines
...kind; it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second of chronic, pleasure ; the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 324 pàgines
...kind; it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second of chronic, pleasure ; the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 312 pàgines
...kind; it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it diners altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second of chronic, pleasure ; the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But... | |
| 1851 - 682 pàgines
...the abuse of opium. " The pleasure given by wine," we quote the ' Confessions of an Opium-Eater,' " is always mounting and tending to a crisis, after...technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second, a case of chronic pleasure; the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glare.... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 pàgines
...kind; it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second of chronic, pleasure; the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But... | |
| 1853 - 848 pàgines
...ç¿..tit,, that It differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine Is always VOL. LXXIV.—XO. COCCLYU. . mounting, and tending to a crisis, after which it...generated, Is stationary for eight or ten hours: the first—to borrow a technical distinction from medicine—Is a case of acute, the second of chronic... | |
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