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The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in the body as rather merely excite apprehensions of its existence: and human nature is so constituted – a trait which the animal lacks – that it is able to strengthen or make permanent local impressions simply by paying attention to them, whereas an abstraction – whether produced on purpose or by other diverting occupations – lessen these impressions, or even effac
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― Anthropologie; Fortschritte der Metaphysik Vorlesungen Kants Über Pädagogik; Vorlesungen Kants Über Logik (Classic Reprint)
― Anthropologie; Fortschritte der Metaphysik Vorlesungen Kants Über Pädagogik; Vorlesungen Kants Über Logik (Classic Reprint)
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Your sisters know what they are about, I dare say, but their measures seem to touch on extremes. I feel that, in any illness, I should be so anxious for professional advice, so very little venturesome for myself, or anybody I loved! But, then, we have been so healthy a family that I can be no judge of what the of self-doctoring may do.
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― Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd
― Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd
