Melancholy (1780) [ Concepts ]
… While endeavouring to think of a subject, that passage in the Psalms, which I have prefixed as a motto to this paper, presented itself to my mind. ‘In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.’ Language cannot … is so powerful that he cannot disentangle himself from its influence, and he is in effect persuaded that its hideous representations of life are true. In all other distresses there is the relief of hope. But it is the peculiar woe of …
Melancholy
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