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A. D. LINDSAY action adolescence Alice average baby begins bodkin brain brother called childish ciliary muscle connexion cylinders Darwin Diag difficulty drawing Emin Pasha emotion enema excited experience Extract eyeball F. S. MARVIN father feeling fibres George Tyrrell girl give grown-up habit hand head hole idea imagery imagination impulse insets instinct interest J. S. Mill Jane Jenny learning lens lessons little boy little child little children look means memory mental mind mother motor nerve motor tract move movements natural naughty never optic nerve ordinary oua-oua Pasha Philip play pleasure remember Repression retina sensory areas simple sound story teacher things Thomas De Quincey thought Tom Brown's Schooldays touch vague visual area W. H. BRAGG walk week Weight whole words writing
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Page 77 - Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather...
Page 189 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.
Page 188 - This did very well for several years, during which the general improvement going on in the world and the idea of myself as engaged with others in struggling to promote it, seemed enough to fill up an interesting and animated existence.
Page 180 - The scene was an Oriental one, and there also it was Easter Sunday, and very early in the morning. And at a vast distance were visible, as a stain upon the horizon, the domes and cupolas of a great city — an image...
Page 180 - ... was at that time, but in all other points the same, and not older. Her looks were tranquil, but with unusual solemnity of expression ; and I now gazed upon her with some awe, but suddenly her countenance grew dim, and, turning to the mountains, I perceived...
Page 179 - I thought that it was a Sunday morning in May; that it was Easter Sunday, and as yet very early in the morning. I was standing, as it seemed to me, at the door of my own cottage.
Page 180 - Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.
Page 188 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant : would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Page 175 - The boy declined to accept this liberal invitation, and conveyed his answer by a most contemptuous and plebeian gesture,!
Page 189 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of.