 | Sir Hall Caine - 1883 - 302 Seiten
...depository of the aggregate, or rather the essence of all human knowledge. So deplorable a delusion as this has only been equalled by that of Joanna Southcote,...who mistook a complaint in the bowels for the divine afflatus, and believed herself about to give birth to the regenerator of the world, when sick unto... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1887 - 188 Seiten
...its opinions to be "wild ravings," and likened the vanity of the author to the deplorable deception of Joanna Southcote, who mistook a complaint in the bowels for the divine afflatus. The "grasp of Hazlitt's powerful hand" in The Edinburgh Jtevieiv, which had previously "crumpled... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 552 Seiten
...depository of the aggregate, or rather the essence of all human knowledge. So deplorable a delusion as this, has only been equalled by that of Joanna...who mistook a complaint in the bowels for the divine afflatus ; and believed herself about to give birth to the regenerator of the world, when sick unto... | |
 | Albert Mordell - 1926 - 314 Seiten
...depository of the aggregate, or rather the essence of all human knowledge. So deplorable a delusion as this, has only been equalled by that of Joanna...who mistook a complaint in the bowels for the divine afflatus; and believed herself about to give birth to the regenerator of the world, when sick unto... | |
 | John Wain - 1953 - 252 Seiten
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 | John Wain - 1953 - 248 Seiten
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... illustrious Spirits, but to unite, in his own mighty intellect, all the glorious powers and faculties by which they were separately distinguished, as if his soul were endowed with all human power, and was the depository of the aggregate, or rather... 