 | Walter Libby - 1922 - 466 pages
...presented itself; and with the most intense belief and prophetic manner, I exclaimed to Dr. Kinglake, ' Nothing exists but thoughts! The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains!'" The discovery of the properties of "laughing gas" appealed to the popular imagination, and Inhaling... | |
 | 1879 - 1166 pages
...illimitable, and time extended infinitely, so that coming out of one of these trances he exclaimed, " Nothing exists but thoughts; the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures, and pains !" In course of time Davy, by the frequent repetition of the process of inhalation, became so infatuated... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 820 pages
...lived, as it were, iii another life, however transitorily, are easily led to declare with Davy that ' nothing exists but thoughts ! the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures, and pains ! ' I believe it is so, and that we might by scientific art, and there is such an art, learn to live... | |
 | James V. Ricci - 1990 - 626 pages
...presented itself; and with the most tense belief and prophetic manner, I exclaimed to Dr. Kingslake, Nothing exists but thoughts! The Universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains." Dr. Kingslake was the junior assistant at the Institute. Davy did not of course limit his investigations... | |
 | Dr. Andrew Cunningham, Nicholas Jardine - 1990 - 374 pages
...of newly connected and newly modified ideas. I theorised, I imagined that I made discoveries . . . Nothing exists but thoughts! The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains!' These researches prompted his remark that 'the laws of gravitation, as well as the chemical laws, will... | |
 | Rosemarie Garland-Thomson - 1996 - 426 pages
...recollection of his "imagined discoveries" was "feeble and indistinct," Davy proclaimed, "in prophetic manner, Nothing exists but thoughts! — the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains!" 10 The fact that Davy assigned to the experience such profound insight into the subjectivity of human... | |
 | David Knight - 1998 - 236 pages
...presented itself: and with the most intense belief and prophetic manner, I exclaimed to Dr. Kinglake, 'Nothing exists but thoughts! - the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains!' About three minutes and a half only, had elapsed during this experiment, though the time as measured... | |
 | June Z. Fullmer - 2000 - 420 pages
...presented itself: and with the most intense belief and prophetic manner, 1 exclaimed to Dr. Kinglake, "Nothing exists but thoughts*. — the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures andpains\" About three minutes and a half only had elapsed during this experiment. . . . Not more than... | |
 | James Hamilton - 2001 - 226 pages
...inferred it would be, but was respirable: it was 'laughing gas'. Davy threw his arms up and exclaimed: 'Nothing exists but thoughts! The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains.' 14 Davy wrote some of the most vivid subjective accounts of anaesthesia ever recorded; Beddoes and... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2001 - 340 pages
...newly modified ideas. I theorised; I imagined that I made discoveries ... I exclaimed to Dr Kinglake, 'Nothing exists but thoughts! - the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures andpains. ri> The experiments created quite a stir. On 5 June Robert Southey wrote to an old friend... | |
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I endeavoured to recall the ideas, they were feeble and indistinct; one collection of terms, however, presented itself: and with the most intense belief and prophetic manner, I exclaimed to Dr. Kinglake, " Nothing exists but thoughts! — -the universe... 
