 I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent; the state, I should think, in...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 6671873Full view - About this book
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 308 pages
...of inspiriting joy. He experienced — as the most moving passage of his Autobiography tells us — "one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent; the state ... in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten with their first 'conviction of sin.'... | |
 | F.R. Burwick - Science - 1987 - 320 pages
...Mill in his Autobiography (1867). Mill's crisis, it should be noted, began with him "in the state ... in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first 'conviction of sin.'"49 As in the "Age of Energy," so in the nearly three centuries preceding it, during which some... | |
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