 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1758 - 478 pages
...methinks, fomewhat abate the infolence of human pride to confider, that it is but increafing or diminiming the velocity of certain fluids in the animal machine,...deprefs the hero into a coward., or advance the coward ioto a hero. It is to • fbme fome fuch mechanical caufe I am inclined to attribute the prefent gloominefs... | |
 | William Melmoth - English prose literature - 1758 - 474 pages
...pride to confider, that it is but increafing or dimi^nifhing the velocity of certain fluids in m£ animal machine, to elate the foul with the gayeft...coward, or advance the coward into a hero. It is to fome • a fome fuch mechanical caufe I am inclined to attribute the prefent gloominefs of my mind : at... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...Inmcwhït abate the infblence of human pride to coi i filler, that it is but increaling or diminiflnng the velocity of certain fluids in the animal machine, to elate the foul with the gayeft hopes, or fmk her into the deepeft del'pair; to depiets the hero into a coward, or advance the coward into a... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1815 - 314 pages
...methinks, somewhat abate the insolence of human pride to consider, that it is but increasing or diminishing the velocity of certain fluids in the animal machine, to elate the soul with the gayest hopes, or sink her into the deepest despair ; to depresi the hero into a coward,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - Psychology, Pathological - 1819 - 586 pages
...somewhat abate the insolence of human pride to .consider, that it is but increasing or diminishing the velocity of certain fluids in the animal machine, to elate the soul with the gayest hopes, or sink her into the deepest despair; to depress the hero into a coward,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 336 pages
...somewhat abate the insolence of human pride, to consider, that it is but increasing or diminishing the velocity of certain fluids in the animal machine, to elate the soul with the gayest hopes, or sink her into the deepest despair ; to depress the hero into a coward,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 600 pages
...fluids, to elate the soul with the gayest hopes, or sink her into the deepest despair ; to depress the hero into a coward, or advance the coward into a hero." Now this being the case, who shall say that there was more than a dose of physic of difference between... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...somewhat abate the insolence of human pride, to consider, that it is but increasing or diminishing the velocity of certain fluids in the animal machine, to elate the soul with the gayest hopes, or sink her into the deepest despair; to depress the hero into a coward,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...somewhat abate the insolence of human pride, to consider, that it is but increasing or diminishing the velocity of certain fluids in the animal machine, to elate the soul with the gayest hopes, or sink her into the deepest despair; to depress the hero into a coward,... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza), Mrs. Pullan (Matilda Marian) - Crocheting - 1855 - 492 pages
...somewhat abate the insolence of human pride, to consider, that it is but increasing or diminishing the velocity of certain fluids in the animal machine, to elate the soul with the gayest hopes, or sink her into the deepest despair ; to depress the hero into a coward,... | |
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It might, metbinks, somewhat abate the insolence of human pride, to consider, that it is but increasing or diminishing the velocity of certain fluids in the animal machine, to elate the soul with the gayest hopes, or sink her into the deepest despair... 
