 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 страници
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...faculties. " Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 страници
...remains as it was: but such an attack produces solicitude for the safety of every faculty." " I prayed God that however He might afflict my body, He would spare my understanding." Let the reader mark that: it is not death this man fears—it is dissolution he shrinks from. Samuel... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 страници
...remains as it was: but such an attack produces solicitude for the safety of every faculty." " I prayed God that however He might afflict my body, He would spare my understanding." Let the reader mark that: it is not death this man fears—it is dissolution he shrinks from. Samuel... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 страници
...In describing afterwards how the paralytic stroke fell upon him, he says, 'I was alarmed, and prayed God that, however he might afflict my body, he would...knew them not to be very good. I made them easily.' That very evening before he had retired he felt himself, he writes, 'light and easy, and began to plan... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 658 страници
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties. 1 Vol. ii., p. 268 of Mrs. Thrale's collection. • To Miss Reynolds.— Croker. " Soon after I perceived... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 страници
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them rot to be very good: I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties. " Soon... | |
 | 1885 - 932 страници
...I felt a confusion in my head which lasted I suppose about half a minute; I was alarmed and prayed God that however He might afflict my body He would spare my understanding Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke and that my speech was taken from me.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 страници
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...a paralytick stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejet tion in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 страници
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...a paralytick stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own apathy,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 страници
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...faculties. "Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this... | |
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I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good:... 
