 Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above...  The Spectator - Page 611753Full view - About this book
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 pages
...indeed the organs are destitute of fenfe, and their natures of thofe faculties that fhould inform them. Thus it is obferved, that men fometimes upon the hour of their departure, do (peak and reafon above thernfelves. For then the foul being near 'freed from the ligaments of the body,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...observed, that men sometimes upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.' • By xis T. Brown, MD and inflamed,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 408 pages
...observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their depar-J ture, do speak and reason above themselves 5 for then the soul beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, -and to discourse in a strain above mortality. We may likewise observe in the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; 2 for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality." We may likewise observe, in the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 314 pages
...observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.' We may likewise observe, in the... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 522 pages
...observed, that men, sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.' '' We may likewise observe, in... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 310 pages
...observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.' We may likewise observe, in the... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 298 pages
...observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves: for then the soul, beginning to be freed" from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above morality.' We may likewise observe, in the... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - Apparitions - 1825 - 514 pages
...says, " that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the Soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality." Such was the idea which prevailed... | |
 | 1827 - 412 pages
...observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure., do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.' We may likewise observe, in the... | |
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