Word: vision
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first section in elocution will meet Mr. Hayes to-day at 2 o'clock. All students are requested to bring Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal" to the class room in Holden Chapel. Copies of the poem may be obtained at Sever...
...psalm; this was followed by the reading of three portions of the New Testament and a prayer by Dr. Mackenzie. Dr. Peabody then ascended the pulpit and began his sermon on the text Joel ii 28: "And it shall come to pass that our old men shall see visions and our young men shall dream dreams." The speaker spoke with great earnestness of the important place which this world of ideality should have among any body of broad minded men, and said that its presence was not lacking amongst us now. "These are the signs which shall mark the coming...
...stroke, there is always headache, general weakness, disturbed vision, and sometimes vomiting. The person suffering from sun or heat-stroke should be taken to a cold place, clothes loosened or taken off, and water thrown over him, or ice-bags used. Sometimes there is exhaustive sun-stroke when the body is cold and the pulse slow; in such cases, stimulants should be given. In giving liquid to an unconscious patient, turn the head to one side, put in the liquid on that side and then throw the head backward and the liquid will pass down involuntarily and without the patient...
...remember once reading, during the evening, an essay of several pages length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination...
This was an admirable period, and an admirable place for me to lay aside my pen. But my conscience, or a dxmon, or a vision, or something bids me write on. For to tell the truth, ever since I wrote the first paragraph of this desultory essay, I have been seeking to find a place to insert a portion of a dream I had a few nights ago. It may be wearisome, but I am bent on making it public. "The prophet that bath a dream let him tell it," says Jeremiah. You, my kind but tired reader, I advise...