 | English literature - 1844 - 698 pages
...Commissioner Winslow, upon a young gentleman of fortune, and of mild manners, whose insane propensity was connected with windmills. He would go any distance...windmill, and would sit watching one for days together. He was removed by his friends to a place where there were no mills, in the hope that the strange propensity... | |
 | 1850 - 1150 pages
...could liave been anticipated from the charade* of hie delusions. "He was » person of mild manners, and laboured under a delusion connected with windmills. He would go any distance to sec в windmill, and would sit watching one for dnye together. Hie friends removed him to a place where... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1853 - 654 pages
...of a young man, upon whom an inquisition was held in 1843. He was a person of mild manners, and he laboured under a delusion connected with windmills. He would go any distance to sec a windmill, and would sit watching one for days together. His friends removed him to a place where... | |
 | Isaac Ray - 1871 - 684 pages
...circle of its diseased operations. A case is on record of a young man who had an insane passion for windmills. He would go any distance to see a windmill, and would sit watching one for days together. In the hope of turning his mind from this strange fancy, his friends removed him to a place where there... | |
 | Alfred Swaine Taylor - Medical jurisprudence - 1873 - 708 pages
...windmills. He particularly wished to be tied to one of the arms of the mill when they were going round : he would go any distance to see a windmill, and would sit watehing one for days together. His friends removed him to a place where there were no mills, in thé... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1844 - 572 pages
...Commissioner Winslow, upon a young gentleman of fortune, and of mild manners, whose insane propensity was connected with windmills. He would go any distance...windmill, and would sit watching one for days together. He was removed by his friends to a place where there were no mills, in the hope that the strange propensity... | |
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In 1843 a case occurred of a young man of mild manners who laboured under a delusion connected with windmills. " He would go any distance to see a windmill; and would sit watching one for days together. His friends removed him to a place where there were... 