Date: 1794
"When we are suddenly awaked by any violent stimulus, the surprise totally disunites the trains of our sleeping ideas from these of our waking ones; but if we gradually awake, this does not happen; and we readily unravel the preceding trains of imagination."
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Date: 1799
"I reflected with amazement on the slightness of that thread by which human passions are led from their true direction."
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Date: 1800
"A few incoherent motions and screams, that rent the soul, were followed by a deep swoon."
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