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" The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable... "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 355
edited by - 1841
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This,...expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in that...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to -receive ; space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This,...expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in...
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The North American Review, Volume 18

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb...expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium...
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information

William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive; space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This,...expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in...
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The Philosophy of Sleep

Robert Macnish - Hygiene - 1834 - 310 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay,...
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The Philosophy of Sleep

Robert Macnish - Sleep - 1834 - 362 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night; nay,...
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"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".

Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, d'd not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or x hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had frcltnirs representative of a millennium paused in...
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The Chinese Repository, Volume 9

Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1840 - 680 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This...expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a milleninm passed in...
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Outlines of Imperfect and Disordered Mental Action

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Mental efficiency - 1840 - 420 pages
...itself in his dreams. After saying that space was amplified to an unutterable infinity, he adds : " This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast...expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night. Nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a miltennium...
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The Student: a magazine of theology, literature, and science

1844 - 1128 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This,...expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived 70 or 100 years in one night, nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in...
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