Search Results (371 titles)

Searched over 7.2 Billion pages in 0.73 seconds

 
Mental disorder (X)

       
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
Records: 81 - 100 of 371 - Pages: 
  • Cover Image

Kenilworth

By: Sir Walter Scott

...now,” said Foster; “yonder is thy lord’s signal, and what to say about the disorder which has hap- pened in this household, by my conscience, I know n... ...was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled, sunburnt vis- age, with a snub nose, a long chin, and... ...arl’s own health, he discovered, to his surprise, that the symptoms of his disorder corresponded minutely with those which Wayland had predicated conc... ... whole history of his attendant, and the pretensions he set up to cure the disorder under which he laboured. The Earl listened with incredulous attent... ...ffe.” He then folded his hands, and seemed for a second or two absorbed in mental devotion, then took the potion in his hand, and, pausing, regarded W... ...dy Paget promised scrupulous secrecy. It is to be supposed that she made a mental reservation in favour of Leicester, to whom her ladyship transmitted... ...her humours, as well as her noble faculties, which, joined to his powerful mental qualities, and his emi- nent external accomplishments, had raised hi... ...W ayland Smith bent his attention to him, had in it something arguing much mental embarrassment and vexation; for sometimes he sat down for an instant... ...t Wayland, modestly, yet as a matter of course (not, however, without some mental misgiving), was about to pass him, and enter the portal arch. The po...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...made, and what relation it bore to external ob- jects. He investigated his mental structure as a schoolboy pulls his watch to pieces, to examine the m... ... he told me that everything seemed to him confused, as if in a mist and in disorder, and that, neverthe- less, this visitation was not unpleasing to h... ... of our angers and disputes.”—Plutarch.] But we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER V ... ...cut approached to parley, who stepped so little away from his fort, that a disorder happening in the interim of parley, not only Monsieur de l’Escut a... ... nettle him, lest his anger should redouble his eloquence. I know, experi- mentally, the disposition of nature so impatient of tedious and elaborate p... ...re, of which I am now speak- ing, there is this also, that it would not be disordered and stimulated with such passions as the fury of Cassius (for su... ...if they had been enemies come to sur- prise their city. All things were in disorder and fury till, with prayers and sacrifices, they had appeased thei... ... soul, that of his body being long since faded and decayed, hoping by this mental society to establish a more firm and lasting con- tract. When this c...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Ann Veronica a Modern Love Story

By: H. G. Wells

...alized in science. She happened to have an acute sense of form and unusual mental lucidity, and she found in biology, and par- ticularly in comparativ... ... a little out of breath, his innocent face flushed, his straw-colored hair disordered. He was out of breath, and spoke in broken sentences. “I say, Ve... ...the most wrapped things in all Ann Veronica’s wrappered world. The Widgett mental furniture was perhaps worn and shabby, but there it was before you, ... ...her aunt, and speculating for the first time in her life about that lady’s mental attitudes. Her prevailing effect was one of quiet and complete assur... ...cept, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. But what ... ...inctively indisposed to think; something which jarred, in spite of all her mental resistance, with all her preconceptions of a clean and courageous gi... ... fundamental changes, of a New Age that is to replace all the stresses and disorders of contemporary life. Miss Miniver learned of her flight and got ... ...ues in the situation simultaneously, and draw some conclu- sion from their disorder. He began to talk again in quick undertones that she could not cle... .... Ann Veronica glanced at the mirror to discover a flushed and dishevelled disorder. She began at once a hasty readjust- ment of her hair, while Ramag...

Read More
  • Cover Image

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

...when not en gaged in making forays through the Bar, to inflict bodily and mental injuries of an acute description on passing boys who were small enou... ...y, and retired into the house. She was not unfrequently the victim of this disorder, and she called it, in familiar conversation, “a fit of the jerks.... ...dant. Doctors who made great fortunes out of dainty remedies for imaginary disorders that never existed, smiled upon their courtly patients in the ant... ...ppiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental debating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be as... ...rinking, pipe smoking, song roaring, and infinite caricaturing of woe, the disorderly procession went its way, recruiting at every step, and all the s... ...ear Manette.” “If I understand,” said the Doctor, in a subdued tone, “some mental shock ?” “Yes!” “Be explicit,” said the Doctor. “Spare no detail.” M... ...ment, that he WAS overworked; it would show itself in some renewal of this disorder?” “I do not think so. I do not think,” said Doctor Manette with th... ...ecame more practised, the ingenuity of the hands, for the ingenuity of the mental torture; that he has never been able to bear the thought of putting ... ... eyes over Gabelle’s letter, the same per sonage in authority showed some disorder and surprise, and looked at Darnay with a close attention. He left...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Under Western Eyes

By: Joseph Conrad

...r. From the multitude of men’s counsel noth- ing could come but revolt and disorder; and revolt and disor- 7 Joseph Conrad der in a world created for... ...kinds of whispers. Razumov was one of those men who, living in a period of mental and political un- rest, keep an instinctive hold on normal, practica... ... parentage suffered from the throes of internal dissensions, and he shrank mentally from the fray as a good-natured man may shrink from taking defi- n... ... was by this monosyllable that Mr. Razumov got into the habit of referring mentally to the stranger with grey silky side-whiskers. From that time too,... ...act with such a crime expressed itself quaintly by a sort of half-derisive mental exclamation, “There goes my silver medal!” Haldin continued after wa... ...presses ideas, guards its power, and defends its exist- ence. By an act of mental extravagance he might imagine him- self arbitrarily thrown into pris... ...up and heaped together into a ragged pile in the middle of the table. This disorder affectecI him profoundly, unreasonably. He sat down and stared. He...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Merry Men

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...eyes against one fact; that he had, as the saying goes, something on his mind; and as I mentally ran over the different words which might be rep- rese... ...n and women, you would see many of them in rags and many of them deformed with horrible disorders; and a city is so hard a place for people who are po... ...ars ago; but they live in such seclu- sion, and the country at that time was in so much disorder, that the precise manner of the man’s end is known on... ...th- out an effort of the mind. It is true I had before talked with persons of a similar mental constitution; persons who seemed to live (as he did) by... ...nds, stretching forth her arms, throwing back her head as in appeal to heaven. In these disordered movements the beauty and grace of the woman showed ... ... hands; and the moments we thus stood face to face, drinking each other in, were sacra- mental and the wedding of souls. I know not how long it was be... ... And with that the Doctor made off along the street in some emotion, and the boy stood, mentally gaping, where he left him. CHAPTER III: THE ADOPTION ... ...a mis- conception. Not that he regretted excess on such a glori- ous day, but he made a mental memorandum to beware; he must not, a second time, becom...

Read More
  • Cover Image

The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...n to life from the swoon there are two stages; first, that of the sense of mental or spiritual; secondly, that of the sense of physi cal existence. I... ...departure. The difficulty, nevertheless, was but trivial, although, in the disorder of my fancy, it seemed at first insuperable. I tore a part of the ...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen

... ADDITION TO what has been already said of Catherine Morlands personal and mental endowments, when about to be launched into all the difficulties and ... ...if everybody was to drink their bottle a day , there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for u... ...ur and twenty hours. On the fifth day she died. During the progress of her disorder, Frederick and I (we were both at home) saw her repeatedly; and fr...

Read More
  • Cover Image

The Country Doctor

By: Honoré de Balzac

... as rigidly as if they had been military regula- tions; though he had real mental power, both natural and acquired; and although he had mastered the a... ...sion for a being that had neither the physical beauty of an animal nor the mental endowments of man, who was possessed of neither instinct nor reason,... ...s spot. Was it not doing the country a great service to put a stop to this mental and physical contagion? But impera- tively as the salutary changes w... ...erfect neatness which reigned in a place where everything as a rule was in disorder, the absence of stirring life, the stillness in so noisy a spot, t... ...le, like a man accustomed to put his life in peril, and whose physical and mental strength had been so often tried by dangers of every kind, that he n... ...for the day of triumph of a suffering people is always brief, and involves disorders of the worst kind. There would be no truce in a desperate strife ... ...When we have been tried and disciplined in youth by pain, in later life by mental suffering, are we so much nearer to Him? Look! there is the rustic m...

Read More
  • Cover Image

House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

...t was not, after all, opportunity but imagination that he lacked: he had a mental palate which would never learn to distinguish between railway tea an... ...ppeared to be sailing on the surface of conversation; and in this case her mental excursion took the form of a rapid survey of Mr. Percy Gryce’s futur... ..., and no definite object to be led up to, she could taste the rare joys of mental vagrancy. She felt so free from ulterior motives that she took up hi... ...difficulties for a professional sponge like Carry Fisher, who was simply a mental habit corresponding to the physical titillations of the cigarette or... ...terposition of layers of gauze, but on a corresponding ad- justment of the mental vision. To unfurnished minds they re- main, in spite of every enhanc... ...ie 158 House of Mirth down, her aunt’s panacea for all physical and moral disorders. In the solitude of her own room she was brought back to a sharp ... ...d acquaintance with her husband’s private affairs. In the large tumultuous disorder of the life at Bellomont, where no one 212 House of Mirth seemed ... ... general tenor. The lady’s habits were marked by an Oriental indolence and disorder peculiarly trying to her com- panion. Mrs. Hatch and her friends s...

Read More
  • Cover Image

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

By: Henry Fielding

...which is the sharpest and keenest. In like manner, the excellence of the mental entertain ment consists less in the subject than in the author’s sk... ...gment of her character. It may, however, be proper to say, that whatever mental accomplishments she had derived from nature, they were somewhat impr... ...s a lover of mankind, preferring one to another for cor poreal, as he for mental qualifications; but never carrying this preference so far as to cau... ...s he had, however, neglected; as it was usual with him to do all manner of disorders which did not confine him to his bed, or prevent his several facu... ...ose to mirth, sang two or three amorous songs, and fell into every frantic disorder which unbridled joy is apt to inspire; but so far was he from any ... ...law. Presently after which he took his leave; saying his house was in such disorder that it was necessary for him to make haste home, to take care his... ...e of any. These methods must have certainly been used with some success in disorders of the like kind, or so skilful a practitioner as Mrs. Honour wou... ...f debauchery; nay, I soon distinguished myself so notably in all riots and disorders, that my name generally stood first in the roll of delinquents; a...

Read More
  • Cover Image

War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...d be learnt in no other way; but for all that, I insist, it remains waste, disorder, disaster. There is a disposition, I know, in myself as well as in... ...ar. We knew that we and our allies are upon a greater, graver, more funda- mental business than that sort of thing now. We are very near the waking po... ...exible qual- ity of body, the quickness of nerve, the temperament, nor the mental habits that make a successful aviator. This idea was first put into ... ... A THINK A THINK AT ALL? T ALL? T ALL? T ALL? T ALL? ALL HUMAN AFFAIRS are mental affairs; the bright ideas of to- day are the realities of to-morrow.... ...ere is nothing in this war at all but a conflict of ideas, traditions, and mental habits. The German Will clothed in conceptions of aggression and for... ... allowance. Now first I would ask, is any really continuous and thor- ough mental process going on at all about this war? I mean, is there any conside... ...artment, but it isn’t reli- gion! The world is distressed by international disorder, by the monstrous tragedy of war; these little hot talks about ind... ... God, master and leader of all mankind, in unending conflict with cruelty, disorder, folly and waste. To my mind, it follows immedi- ately that there ... ...ne in the affairs of any country or region in a state of open and manifest disorder, for the protection of foreign travellers and of persons and inter...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Sketches of Young Couples

By: Charles Dickens

...fiture of the Clergy of the Established Church, by entailing upon them great mental and physical exhaustion; and that such Popish plots are fo mented... ...they are equally the theme of their doting parents, and equally a source of mental an guish and irritation to their doting parents’ friends. The cou... ... with their births, accidents, ill nesses, or remarkable deeds. They keep a mental almanack with a vast number of Innocents’ days, all in red letters... ...ady, with very light hair, and is exceedingly subject to the same unpleasant disorder. The venerable Mrs. Chop per — who is strictly entitled to the... ... with, Mrs. Chopper, who has been biding her time, cuts in with the chronic disorder — a sub ject upon which the amiable old lady never leaves off s...

Read More
  • Cover Image

God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

...ospective reader for statements that may jar harshly against deeply rooted mental habits. It is well to warn him at the outset that the departure from... ...pel was a free man, but Origen was a superstitious man. He was emasculated mentally as well as bodily through his bibliolatry. He quotes; his predeces... ...nfinite qualities for their deity. One has to remember the poorness of the mental and moral quality of the churchmen of the third, fourth, and fifth c... ... against him…. By the fifth century Christianity had adopted as its funda- mental belief, without which everyone was to be “damned 14 God The Invisib... ...ubsides. A life perfectly adjusted to its surroundings is a life with- out mentality; no judgment is called for, no inhibition, no disturbance of the ... ...ppiness, the craving of their restlessness for peace, their angers against disorder and their desire for the avenger; their sexual passions and perple... ...ecome a re- sponsible minister of my King. I take sides against injustice, disorder, and against all those temporal kings, emperors, princes, landlord... ...ledge, to increase order and clearness, to fight against indolence, waste, disorder, cruelty, vice, and every form of his and our enemy, death, first ... ... material greeds, the avarice, fear, rivalries, and ignoble ambitions of a disordered world will be challenged and examined under one general question...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

... source. For the same reason I am almost afraid to hint at that time in my disorder—it seemed one long night, but I believe there were both nights and... ...took that direction, as it sometimes naturally did, I tried not to hear: I mentally counted, repeated something that I knew, or went out of the room. ... ...t was now a delicate high nosed invalid suffering under a complication of disorders. “This,” said Mr. Skimpole, “is my Beauty daughter, Arethusa—play... ...alent complaint Bleak House – Volume Two 275 of boredom and finding that disorder attacking her spirits with some virulence, ventures at length to r... ...with a wax light in his hand, holding it above his head and taking a sharp mental inventory of the many delicate objects so curi ously at variance wi... ...ire, takes to crying at all times and seasons, becomes the victim of a low disorder of the spirits, and gives warning and departs. Thus Chesney Wold. ...

Read More
  • Cover Image

The Relics of General Chasse

By: Anthony Trollope

...of senile im- becility. Were it not for a certain rigidity, sternness, and mental inflexibility,—we will call it military ardour,— with which they wer... ...fell gash had already gone through and through; and in useless, unbecoming disorder the broadcloth fell pendant from her arm on this side and on that....

Read More
  • Cover Image

The Hidden Masterpiece

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ness of his eyes, the convulsive movements which seemed the result of some mental resistance, gave to this fancy of the youth a semblance of truth whi... ...nto the middle of a vast atelier filled with dust, where everything lay in disorder, and where they saw a few paintings hanging here and there upon th... ... could see it nowhere. “There it is!” said the old man, whose hair fell in disorder about his face, which was scarlet with supernatural excite- ment. ...

Read More
  • Cover Image

In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...dvanced” ideas in 1914, very Utopian. Against them was an unbroken mass of mental habit and public tradition. While we talked of this “war to end war,... ...f nation in the defendant state, aggressive military or naval preparation, disorder spreading over the frontier, trespass (as, for instance, by airshi... ...over the frontier, trespass (as, for instance, by airships), propaganda of disorder, espionage, permitting the organization of injurious activities, s... ... the background outside the internationalized area, intrigu- ing to create disorder and mischief with ideas of an ultimate annexation. But I doubt if ... ...to stand the imputation that that sort of reasoning represents the average mental quality of Westminster—out- side Parliament, that is. Most of my nei... ...gnificance. Never mind my keen personal humiliation at this display of the mental calibre of my representative, but consider what the mental calibre o... ...e its due effects. To that end, I suppose, there has been a vast amount of mental activity among us political “negligibles.” For my own part I have th...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... is frequently attended with such an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” Ulloa’s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of sp... ...ing among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas. So disordered, self condemning is his look, that had there been policemen in t... ...this tidy earth. But even granting the charge in question to be true; what disordered slippery decks of a whale ship are comparable to the unspeakable... ...m, was small indeed. For, owing to the large number of whale cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the en tire watery circumference, ... ... Honor and Glory of Whaling T here are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. The more I dive into this matter of whal... ...g Fast Fish and Loose Fish, I say, will, on reflection, be found the funda mentals of all human jurisprudence; for notwithstanding its complicated tra...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

...n the parlour for a few seconds, expressing in his countenance the deepest mental misery and gloom followed him. Then they took up the box between the... ...as very pale, in part no doubt from recent agitation. Her dark brown hair, disordered from the same cause, had fallen negligently from its bonds, and ... ... back again at him. At first she had recoiled involuntarily, supposing him disordered in his mind; but the slow composure of his manner, and the settl... ...n manner, as if by that means he gained a clear insight into the patient’s disorder, he took his seat in a large arm-chair, and in an attitude of some... ...ld, would have established her claim to the title, and have shown herself, mentally speaking, a perfect Samson, by shutting up her brother-in-law in a... ...le effect upon the imagination. What do you say to beginning with an orna- mental turnpike?’ ‘Whatever Mr Pecksniff pleased,’ said Martin, doubtfully.... ..., the little pupil became alarmingly upright, and prepared herself to take mental notes of all that might be said and done. For the lady of the establ... ...repeated with some difficulty. ‘Chron-ic. A chronic 144 Martin Chuzzlewit disorder. I have been its victim from childhood. It is carrying me to my gr... ...including the young- est, who was visibly agitated, and in a state of deep mental dejec- tion. Nothing could equal the distress of Mrs Todgers in part...

Read More
       
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
Records: 81 - 100 of 371 - Pages: 
 
 





Copyright © World Library Foundation. All rights reserved. eBooks from Project Gutenberg are sponsored by the World Library Foundation,
a 501c(4) Member's Support Non-Profit Organization, and is NOT affiliated with any governmental agency or department.