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The alchemists could describe it only in contraries.
-"contraries are the remedies of contraries.
FLORRY: Dreams goes by contraries.
Sit ye down, and give me your forgiveness for having ever been a worrit to you, Dan'l-what have my contraries ever been to this!
This was truly the principle of contraries contrariis, which ill-informed persons have attempted to make out to be the general doctrine of medicine, whereas there is no general dogma other than this: disease is to be treated by anything that is proved to cure it.
Furthermore, these emotions, in so far as we distinguish them from others merely by the objects wherewith they are concerned, have no contraries.
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It may, nevertheless, happen, that an avaricious, an ambitious, or a timid man may abstain from excess in eating, drinking, or sexual indulgence, yet avarice, ambition, and fear are not contraries to luxury, drunkenness, and debauchery.
By conflicting emotions I mean those which draw a man in different directions, though they are of the same kind, such as luxury and avarice, which are both species of love, and are contraries, not by nature, but by accident.
"The red (or rayed) color, in the midst of the five primordial colors, is the harmonic expression of them by way of excellence, and the result of the union of two contraries, light and darkness.
Further, as things are best illustrated by their contraries, let us put the case of a [Page 281] being, if there is such a one, who, in viewing external objects, has no idea of substance, but only of qualities; and who, in viewing motion, does not feel the change produced by it, to be an effect, or any way connected with the motion, further than as following it in point of time.
The same passions arise from bodily accomplishments, such as beauty, force, swiftness, dexterity; and from their contraries; as likewise from the external advantages and disadvantages of family, possession, cloaths, nation and climate.
Now the Generality of Moralists, after proving or illustrating this, have taken it for granted, as a certain Consequence, that the external Goods of Life are, by the Law of Contraries, in a similar Manner annexed to the Practice of Virtue.
I begin to count my comforts, for I find their contraries thicken on my apprehension.
As dreams often go by contraries, you must not be surprised if you wake and find we have been beaten back; but at this present moment, we are all dreaming of victory.
I totter on the edge of wretchedness and woe, without one friendly hand to save me from the terrible abyss!" These reflections, which, perhaps, the misery of his fellow-creatures would never have inspired, had he himself remained without the verge of misfortune, were now produced from the sensation of his own calamities; and, for the first time, his cheeks were bedewed with the drops of penitence and sorrow. "Contraries," saith Plato, "are productive of each other." Reformation is oftentimes generated from unsuccessful vice; and our adventurer was, at this juncture, very well disposed to turn over a new leaf in consequence of those salutary suggestions; though he was far from being cured beyond the possibility of a relapse.
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