 | 1816 - 582 Seiten
...hope, that he would some time find grace enough to pay me my charge; but as it is, I have no hopes. I have often asserted that the visionary fervours of...the first effects of it, and this is an instance. A contemporary writer on insanity, goes a little out of his way to stigmatize the Methodists as the frequent... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 Seiten
...to pay me my charge; but as it is, I have no hopes. I have often asserted that the •• i-ioiKirs fervours of devotion, which have been stated as. the...cause of insanity, were frequently the first effects at it, and this is sin instance. A contemporary \vriter on insanity, goes a little out of his way to... | |
 | 1816 - 658 Seiten
...hope, tfta* he would some time find grace enough to pay me my charge; but as it is, I have no hopes. I have often asserted' that the visionary fervours of devotion, which have been stated as the On this case we shall leave the reader to make his own comments; and shall now dismiss the consideration... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 618 Seiten
...as the occasion of madness. In the letter, too, of Mr. Bake well, we find it very sensibly observed, that ' the visionary fervours of devotion, which have been stated as the cause of insanity, are frequently the first effects of it.' The French Revolution peopled the madhouses of Paris in a... | |
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... his own natural character, viz. that of a bold profligate, with no more religion than the bird that bears his name (Swan.) I wish he had been a Methodist; for in that case I should have hope, that he would some time find grace enough to pay me my... 