Psychology and Common Life: A Survey of the Present Results of Psychical Research with Special Reference to Their Bearings Upon the Interests of Every Day LifePutnam, 1903 - 286 pages |
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Psychology and Common Life: A Survey of the Present Results of Psychical ... Frank Sargent Hoffman Affichage du livre entier - 1903 |
Psychology and Common Life: A Survey of the Present Results of Psychical ... Frank Sargent Hoffman Affichage du livre entier - 1903 |
Psychology and Common Life: A Survey of the Present Results of Psychical ... Frank Sargent Hoffman Affichage du livre entier - 1903 |
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Page 165 - ... to dance without intermission, until their very last breath was expended. Their fury and extravagance of demeanour so completely deprived them of their senses, that many of them dashed their brains out against the walls and corners of buildings, or rushed headlong into rapid rivers, where they found a watery grave.
Page 167 - A butcher was brought into a druggist's from the market-place opposite, laboring under a terrible accident. The man, on trying to hook up a heavy piece of meat above his head, slipped, and the sharp hook penetrated his arm so that he himself was suspended. On being examined, he was pale, almost pulseless, and expressed himself as suffering acute agony. The arm could not be moved without causing excessive pain ; and in cutting off the sleeve he frequently cried out ; yet when the arm was exposed,...
Page 9 - Previous to his injury, though untrained in the schools, he possessed a well balanced mind, and was looked upon by those who knew him as a shrewd, smart business man, very energetic and persistent in executing all his plans of operation. In this regard his mind was radically changed, so decidedly, that his friends and acquaintances said he was
Page 9 - He is fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom), manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate, yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future operation, which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible.
Page 63 - ... a great Hebrew scholar, in whose house she lived till his death. On further inquiry it appeared to have been the old man's custom for years to walk up and down a passage of his house into which the kitchen opened, and to read to himself with a loud voice out of his books. The books were ransacked, and among them were found several of the Greek and Latin Fathers, together with a collection of Rabbinical writings. In these works so many of the passages taken down at the young woman's bed-side were...
Page 165 - A few months after this dancing malady had made its appearance at Aix-la-Chapelle, it broke out at Cologne, where the number of those possessed amounted to more than five hundred, and about the same time at Metz, the streets of which place are said to have been filled with eleven hundred dancers.
Page 61 - ... of a small violin. On further observation it was found that, after being about two hours in bed, she became restless and began to mutter to herself ; she then uttered...
Page 259 - On the morning of March 14th, however, at Norristown, Pennsylvania, a man calling himself AJ Brown, who had rented a small shop six weeks previously, stocked it with stationery, confectionery, fruit and small articles, and carried on his quiet trade without seeming to any one unnatural or eccentric, woke up in a fright and called in the people of the house to tell him where he was.
Page 8 - His contractors, who regarded him as the most efficient and capable foreman in their employ previous to his injury, considered the change in his mind so marked that they would not give him his place again.
Page 288 - /Esthetics," "Comparative Psychology," etc. 12°, $1.50. u Gives a wholesome and inspiring word on all the living social questions of the day ; and its suggestions as to how the social life of man may be made purer and truer are rich with the finer wisdom of the time. The author is always liberal in spirit, generous in his sympathies, and wise in his knowledge.