United States or Dominican Republic ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But the moment I was unbound, I fainted away, and when I came to myself I lay upon a matrass in the cabin, and felt the most intolerable pain in all my limbs, but particularly in my legs.
I made an Answer full of Acknowledgments, and Cuffey carried me home, where my Hurt, which was a Flesh Wound, was dress'd: He saw me laid on a Matrass, and left me. About Eight, a Negro Wench brought me some Kid very well drest, and leaving me, bid me good Night. Notwithstanding my Hurt, I slept tolerably well, being heartily fatigued with the Day's Walk.
I passed through the library with him into a little room evidently devoted to his experiments. You have come just at the right moment, he said. Your eyes are better than mine. I have been looking at this flask, and I should like to have you look at it. It was a small matrass, as one of the elder chemists would have called it, containing a fluid, and hermetically sealed.
In this belief I was falling over once more, when I heard a short startled grunt from one of the men in the steerage, then a sudden sharp exclamation from another a louder ejaculation of surprise from a third and presently Mr Wagtail, who was sleeping on a matrass spread on the locker below me, gave a spluttering cough.
"First let me hear what you conceive its meaning to be," said I. "Why, sir, I should say that Carn-lleidyr is an out-and-out thief one worse than a thief of the common sort. Now, if I steal a matrass I am a lleidyr, that is a thief of the common sort; but if I carry it to a person, and he buys it, knowing it to be stolen, I conceive he is a far worse thief than I; in fact, a carn-lleidyr."
His image faded like a vision from my sight, and I sunk at his feet. On recovering I found myself on my matrass, attended by a sister, who I discovered by her conversation had no suspicion of the occasion of my disorder.
They do not go to Roost, but lye on Feather-beds and Matrass, with warm Coverings; for, at the setting of the Sun, there falls so great a Dew, that I was, in the Night, as sensible of Cold, as ever I was in Europe in the Winter. After I had eat my Piece of Meat, a Bed was made for me in my Master's Chamber, whither he conducted me.
I passed through the library with him into a little room evidently devoted to his experiments. You have come just at the right moment, he said. Your eyes are better than mine. I have been looking at this flask, and I should like to have you look at it. It was a small matrass, as one of the elder chemists would have called it, containing a fluid, and hermetically sealed.
On the contrary, he holds and this does not square well with the preceding that the soul is an ethereal fluid similar to electricity; that the brain is the matrass or bottle into which the animal transports, according to the strength of the apparatus, as much as the various organisms can absorb of this fluid, which issues thence transformed into will; that our sentiments are movements of the fluid, which proceeds from us by jerks when we are angry, and which weighs on our nerves when we are in expectation; that the current of this king of liquids, according to the pressure of thought and feeling, spreads in waves or diminishes and thins, then collects again, to gush forth in flashes.
Full seventy years his Exalted Essence was hermetically sealed in its Terrene Matrass; but the Radical Moisture being exhausted, the Elixir Vitæ spent, And exsiccate to a Cuticle, he could not suspend longer in his Vehicle, but precipitated Gradatim, per Campanam, to his original dust.
Word Of The Day