 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1887 - Počet stránok 1134
...it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of large collections of facts." These indications of the methods by which Nature... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1895 - Počet stránok 1082
...poetry; Shakespeare nauseated him, and he had entirely lost his taste for music. " My mind," he says, " seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. If I had to live my life over again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1888 - Počet stránok 532
...engrossed him and encouraged him by their fruitful results. And so he himself describes his mind as having become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. He lost his pleasure in poetry and music and painting ; he came, in his own words, not to be able to... | |
 | 1919 - Počet stránok 714
...so inexpressibly dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of a large collection of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of... | |
 | John Michels - 1925 - Počet stránok 960
...periods of complete rest and sanitarium treatment, can one wonder that, in his own words, his mind should become a "kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts," and that there should be a corresponding "atrophy of that part of the brain . . . on which the higher... | |
 | 1887 - Počet stránok 604
...facts which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects, interest mo as much as they ever did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a Inrge collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain... | |
 | 1888 - Počet stránok 938
...so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have almost lost my taste for pictures or music. . . . My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...general laws out of large collections of facts. But why thw should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend,... | |
 | 1888 - Počet stránok 1074
...ot a man whose learning and great powers of research made him famous, I mean Charles Darwin : — " My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. . . If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1888 - Počet stránok 742
...intolerably dull." All his taste, too, for music and pictures equally disappears. In fact, he confesses : " My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts," and he loses all enjoyment from his other tastes. As we began by saying, whether for good or for ill,... | |
 | 1888 - Počet stránok 658
...curious dying-away of the "higher (esthetic tastes," as life went on and his mind more and more became " a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ". The proclamation of philosophical (as distinguished from scientific) incompetence has a truly remarkable... | |
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher states depend, I cannot conceive... 
