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• His intimations of danger seemed at first very shocking, but, at last, I got more familiar with these terrible suggestions, and regarded them as the distempered fancies of an over-worked mind In this way our long voyage passed, and we arrived at last at our place of destination. —  The Little Savage
• And in the very midst of the prodigality of love and passion, which he had poured out over the creations of his ever-distempered fancy, let his living children, his own flesh and blood, disappear as paupers in a chance-governed world? —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• When by fasting and darkness the brain is distempered, they fancy they see spectres and hear voices. —  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
• Oh keep me from these unsober, distempered, mad, unruly thoughts! —  Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents
• From whence we may understand that they who gave these names to things were of the same opinion with Socrates, that all silly people were unsound, which the Stoics have carefully preserved as being derived from him; for whatever mind is distempered (and, as I just now said, the philosophers call all perturbed motions of the mind distempers) is no more sound than a body is when in a fit of sickness. —  Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

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