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... Sadness . Sadness is a disagreeable languor in which consists the dis- comfort and unrest which the soul receives from evil , or from the defect which the impressions of the brain set before it as pertaining to it . And there also is an ...
... Sadness . Sadness is a disagreeable languor in which consists the dis- comfort and unrest which the soul receives from evil , or from the defect which the impressions of the brain set before it as pertaining to it . And there also is an ...
Page 382
... Sadness causes paleness . Sadness , on the contrary , in contracting the orifices of the heart , causes the blood to flow more slowly in the veins , and , becoming colder and thicker , the blood requires less space there , so that ...
... Sadness causes paleness . Sadness , on the contrary , in contracting the orifices of the heart , causes the blood to flow more slowly in the veins , and , becoming colder and thicker , the blood requires less space there , so that ...
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... sadness , even when it is not accompanied with love ; for they have always enough blood to produce much vapour , the movement of which , being retarded by sadness , is converted into tears . ARTICLE CXXXIV . Why some children become ...
... sadness , even when it is not accompanied with love ; for they have always enough blood to produce much vapour , the movement of which , being retarded by sadness , is converted into tears . ARTICLE CXXXIV . Why some children become ...
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