Wieland, Or, the Transformation (Paperback)


Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1811. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... friends; that I should overlook the suggestions of duty, and fly from that post in which only I" could be instrumental to the benefit of others; that the exercise of the social and beneficent affections, the contemplation of nature and the acquisition of wisdom should not. be seen to be means of happiness still within my reach, is, . at this time; scarcc-ly credible ..., __., . 7: : Jt is true that I am now changed; bu.t I haye not the consolation to reflect that my change was owing to my fortitude or to- nay. capacity for instruction. Better thoughts grew up ii my mind imperceptibly, 1 cannot but congratulate myself on the change, though, perhaps, it merely argues a fickleness of temper, and a defect of sensibility.... . After my narrative was ended I be* look myself to my bed, in the full belief that my career in this world was on the point of finishing. My uncle took up his abode with me, and performed for rae every office of nurse, physician, and friend. One night, after some hours of restlessness and pain, I sunk into deep sleep. Its tranquillity, however, was of no long duration. My fancy became suddenly distempered, and ray brain was turned into a theatre of uproar and confusion. It would not be easy to. describe the wild and phantastical incongruities that pestered me. My uncle, Wieland, Pleyel, and Carwin, were successively and momently discerned amidst the storm. Sometimes I was swallowed upbywhijlr pools, or caught up in the air by halfseen and gigantic forms, and thrown upon pointed rocks, or cast among the billows. Sometimes gleams of light were shot into a dark abyss, on the verge of which I was standing, and enabled me to discover, for a moment, its enormous depth and hideous precipices. Anon, I was transported to some ridge of iEtna, and made a ...

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1811. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... friends; that I should overlook the suggestions of duty, and fly from that post in which only I" could be instrumental to the benefit of others; that the exercise of the social and beneficent affections, the contemplation of nature and the acquisition of wisdom should not. be seen to be means of happiness still within my reach, is, . at this time; scarcc-ly credible ..., __., . 7: : Jt is true that I am now changed; bu.t I haye not the consolation to reflect that my change was owing to my fortitude or to- nay. capacity for instruction. Better thoughts grew up ii my mind imperceptibly, 1 cannot but congratulate myself on the change, though, perhaps, it merely argues a fickleness of temper, and a defect of sensibility.... . After my narrative was ended I be* look myself to my bed, in the full belief that my career in this world was on the point of finishing. My uncle took up his abode with me, and performed for rae every office of nurse, physician, and friend. One night, after some hours of restlessness and pain, I sunk into deep sleep. Its tranquillity, however, was of no long duration. My fancy became suddenly distempered, and ray brain was turned into a theatre of uproar and confusion. It would not be easy to. describe the wild and phantastical incongruities that pestered me. My uncle, Wieland, Pleyel, and Carwin, were successively and momently discerned amidst the storm. Sometimes I was swallowed upbywhijlr pools, or caught up in the air by halfseen and gigantic forms, and thrown upon pointed rocks, or cast among the billows. Sometimes gleams of light were shot into a dark abyss, on the verge of which I was standing, and enabled me to discover, for a moment, its enormous depth and hideous precipices. Anon, I was transported to some ridge of iEtna, and made a ...

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General Books LLC

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Release date

2012

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2012

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246 x 189 x 1mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

24

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978-1-4589-8996-3

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9781458989963

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1-4589-8996-8



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