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" The first proceeds from heat of the brain, which makes the spirits more airy and volatile, and thereby the motions of thought lighter and quicker, and the range of imagination much greater than in cold heads, where the spirits are more earthy and dull... "
Memoirs of the Life, Works, and Correspondence of Sir William Temple, Bart - Page 323
by Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1836 - 2 pages
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Observations Upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands

William Temple - History - 1705 - 308 pages
...Converfation, yet they they want not plain down-right Senfe to underfhnd and do their Bufinefs both publick and private, which is a Talent very different from...the other > and I know not, whether they often meet : For the Fifft proceeds from JHeat of the Brain, which makes the Spirits more airy and volatile, and...
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The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes ..., Volume 1

Sir William Temple - Europe - 1757 - 530 pages
...agreeable converfation, yet they want not plain downright fenfe to underftand and do their bufinefs both public and private, which is a talent very different...the other ; and I know not whether they often meet : for the firft proceeds from heat of the brain, which makes the fpirits more airy and volatile, and...
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Memoirs of the Life, Works, and Correspondence of Sir William ..., Volume 1

Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1836 - 556 pages
...of freedom in discussion will scarcely account for even the suggestion of a breach of faith. Want of clearness in thought, or in expression, is the original..." The first proceeds from heat of the brain, which makes the spirits more airy and volatile, and thereb} th<; motions of thought lighter and quicker,...
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Memoirs of the life, works, and correspondence of sir William Temple, Volume 1

Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1836 - 554 pages
...and having endured the entertainments of building and planting, which used to succeed them ; finding little taste in common conservation, and trouble in..." The first proceeds from heat of the brain, which makes the spirits more airy and volatile, and thereby the motions of thought lighter and quicker, and...
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Observations Upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands

William Temple - Netherlands - 1971 - 196 pages
...Conversation, yet they want not plain down-right Sense to understand and do their Business both publick and private, which is a Talent very different from...the other; and I know not, whether they often meet: For the First proceeds from heat of the brain, which makes the Spirits more airy and volatile, and...
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