 | Horace B. Day - 1868 - 406 頁
...kind; it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting and...technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second of chron1c, pleasure; the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1869 - 326 頁
...The pleasure given by wine is always rapidly mounting and tending to a crisis, after which as rapidly it declines; that from opium, when once generated, is stationary for eight or ten hours." intemperance. Here is its proximate cause, — its true etiology. It does not spring up native from... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1869 - 312 頁
...The pleasure given by wine is always rapidly mounting and tending to a crisis, after which as rapidly it declines; that from opium, when once generated, is stationary for eight or ten hours." intemperance. Here is its proximate cause, — its true etiology. It does not spring up native from... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1870 - 260 頁
...to the supposition that opium intoxicates, and remarks. that ' no quantity of opium will intoxicate. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...generated, is stationary for eight or ten hours; the one is like a flame, the other a steady equable flow.' Then, secondly, as to the belief that the elevation... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 640 頁
...kind; it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...technical' distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second of chronic, pleasure; the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 236 頁
...kind: it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second the chronic pleasure—the one is a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1885 - 316 頁
...kind: it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But the main distinction lies in this, that whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium, on the... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1885 - 338 頁
...kind: it is not in the quantity of its effects merely, but in the quality, that it differs altogether. The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and...a flame, the other a steady and equable glow. But the main distinction lies in this, that whereas wine disorders the mental fatuities, opium, on the... | |
 | 1890 - 666 頁
...pleasure given by wine is always rapidly mounting, and tending to a crisis, after which as rapidly it declines; that from opium, when once generated,...the first, to borrow a technical distinction from medicine,is a case of acute, the second of chronic, pleasure ; the one is a flickering flame, the other... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1890 - 494 頁
...medical connoisseurs whom I have known boiled their opium, so as to cleanse it from gross impurities. for eight or ten hours : the first, to borrow a technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute, the second of chronic, pleasure ; the one is a flickering flame, the other a steady and equable... | |
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The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and tending to a crisis, after which it declines ; that from opium, when once generated, is stationary for eight or ten hours ; the first, to borrow a technical distinction from medicine, is a case of acute—the... 
