Why does this monomaniacpreserve both the garments of his youth, which prevent him from feeling his age, and the dream of his life, which consoles him for his lost reason?
It is a melancholy book--written under monomaniac suspicion on the part of the author that he was the object of a wide-spread conspiracy against his reputation, his peace of mind, and even his life.
A monomaniac before, he is paralytic now, and the last night of his life is slowly passing.
David Hume, the Scotchman, tried to befriend him; but the monomaniac was incapable of being befriended.
A monomaniac is generally made by dwelling for a long period upon one object with intense interest, to the exclusion of others.
She was undoubtedly a monomaniacof the most extraordinary kind.
The grasping monomaniac made no hesitation, but agreed at once to the disgusting terms proposed to him.
The closer the identification becomes, the more confirmed is the monomaniac in his madness, the character of which varies with the temperament of the individual.
Into one of these the Monomaniac was placed with considerable difficulty, everything with which he could injure himself having been previously removed.
The "supposed enemy" and the Monomaniac had been both occupied on the same subject; the latter was much superior, and had consequently attained greater distinction.
At the end of a few months the Monomaniac was completely cured.
A monomaniac priest used to sketch his figures nude, and then artfully drape them by means of lines which revealed the generative organs.
These are the symbols usual with the monomaniac and the mattoid.
A monomaniac at the Bicêtre lamented his detention in the following striking verse:-- “Ah!
Raggi has sent me some flints carved by a monomaniac entirely ignorant of archæology, which, in the choice of figures and emblems, recall the style of Egyptian and Phœnician amulets.
Nocito has well remarked that an examination of the strange emblematic properties of the League proved beyond all doubt that the Government had mistaken a monomaniac for a rebel.
They must further swear that they have one or both of them known him, off and on, for many years past, as a monomaniac with Sunchildism on the brain but otherwise harmless.
I attended a monomaniac lady in Paris, who fancied herself in Jerusalem on the eve of its destruction.
For with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.
Such a crew, so officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge.
Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
Forthwith his natural suspicion leaped up, and the cunning of the monomaniac was upon him.
With the cunning of the monomaniac he realised that an attack now might frustrate his great stroke.
To the superficial observer, the great mass of the people seemed carried away with a monomaniac frenzy.
Mr. Packard is a monomaniac on this subject; there is no more reason in his treatment of sister, than in a brute.
Mr. Packard is a monomaniac on the treatment of woman.
But now I can on the supposition that he don't know a sane from an insane person, because he has become a monomaniac on this subject, just as Mr. Packard has on the woman question.
He has been so long conversant with the insane, that he has become a perfect monomaniac on insanity and in his treatment of the insane.
I may as well confess it--it was intoxicating liquor, and that mainly, which had led me into my various mad marrying schemes and made me the matrimonial monomaniac and lunatic lover that I was for years.
As a matrimonial monomaniac I now looked upon myself as cured.
But I think I was a monomaniac on the subject of matrimony.
A monomaniac (says Esquirol) heard a voice within him repeat these words—“Kill thyself!
The apparitions which the monomaniac fancies to haunt him are as real and sensible existences to him, as objects are to persons who have a healthy use of the media through which ideas obtain access to the mind.
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