 | Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...uneasiness, yet after a little time he was reconciled to it: but some months after seeing by accident a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight. When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...uneasiness, yet after a little time he was reconciled to it ; but some months after, seeing by accident a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight. When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1833 - 448 pages
...uneasiness, yet after a little time he was reconciled to it ; but some months after, seeing by accident a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight. . When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...upon accidentally seeing a negro woman, he was struck w ith great horroiir at the sight. The horrour, in this case, can scarcely be supposed to arise from any association. The Ixiy appears by the account to have been particularly observing and sensible for one of his age ; and... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Aesthetics - 1836 - 528 pages
...boy saw a black object, it gave him great uneasiness ; and that some time after, upon accidentally seeing a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight. This appears to be perfectly conclusive. Knight indeed says, " As to the uneasiness, which the boy,... | |
 | William Cheselden - 1839 - 32 pages
...he was reconciled to it : but some months Mr Cheselden on Lithotomy. 1 1 after, seeing by accident a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight. When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgement about distances, that he thought all objects... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Beauty, Personal - 1846 - 528 pages
...boy saw a black object, it gave him great uneasiness ; and that, some time after, upon accidentally seeing a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight. This appears to be perfectly conclusive. Knight, indeed, says, " As to the uneasiness, which the boy,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 500 pages
...boy saw a black object, it gave him great uneasiness ; and that some time after, upon accidentally seeing a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight It has been said, on good authority, that the mere sight of anything black, invariably excites in the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...the boy saw a black object it gave him great uneasiness; and that some time after, upon accidentally seeing a negro woman, he was struck with great horror...be supposed to arise from any association. The boy ap pears by the account to have been particularly observing and sensible for one of his age; and therefore... | |
 | London (England). Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital - Eye - 1917 - 414 pages
...but black "gave him great uneasiness." However, he became reconciled to it, but some time afterwards seeing a Negro woman "he was struck with great Horror at the Sight." In another paper, quoted by Smith (15), Cheselden adds his experience of other cases. " They all had... | |
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Cheselden tells us that the first time the boy saw a black object it gave him great uneasiness; and that some time after, upon accidentally seeing a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight. 
