A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen and Lyon, 1837 - 664 páginas |
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... directed against methods by which their vanity is mor- tified , and their importance lessened . " - Dissertation , part ii . p . 27 . Every age has afforded proofs of the justness of these obser- vations . " The disciples of the various ...
... directed against methods by which their vanity is mor- tified , and their importance lessened . " - Dissertation , part ii . p . 27 . Every age has afforded proofs of the justness of these obser- vations . " The disciples of the various ...
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... always calculated to the creature's manner of life ; thus hares and such other animals as are daily exposed to insults from beasts of prey , have large ears directed backwards , their eyes 4 ON THE POWER OF ORGANS . 25.
... always calculated to the creature's manner of life ; thus hares and such other animals as are daily exposed to insults from beasts of prey , have large ears directed backwards , their eyes 4 ON THE POWER OF ORGANS . 25.
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George Combe. prey , have large ears directed backwards , their eyes warning them of danger before . " These observations apply to the external portion of the organs of sense . The inner parts or nerves are likewise subject to the same ...
George Combe. prey , have large ears directed backwards , their eyes warning them of danger before . " These observations apply to the external portion of the organs of sense . The inner parts or nerves are likewise subject to the same ...
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... directed , with the most persevering industry , to this department of science , and system after system has flourished , fallen , and been forgotten , in rapid and melancholy succession . To confine our attention to modern times , Dr ...
... directed , with the most persevering industry , to this department of science , and system after system has flourished , fallen , and been forgotten , in rapid and melancholy succession . To confine our attention to modern times , Dr ...
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... directed his attention , from the first , to the students whose eyes were of this description , and found that they all excelled in getting rapidly by heart , and giving correct recitations , although many of them were by no means dis ...
... directed his attention , from the first , to the students whose eyes were of this description , and found that they all excelled in getting rapidly by heart , and giving correct recitations , although many of them were by no means dis ...
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Acquisitiveness activity appears arises attention beauty Benevolence betwixt brain bust Causality cause Cautiousness cerebellum cerebral character circumstances colors Combativeness combination conceive conception Conscientiousness constitution Constructiveness convolutions deficient degree delight desire Destructiveness directed discover disease disposition distinguished doctrine dura mater Edinburgh Review effect emotion endowment equal excited existence external objects fact faculty feeling female frontal bone frontal sinus functions Gall mentions genius gives gratify hence human Ideality ideas imagine impression individual insanity instance instinctive intellectual largely developed Love of Approbation lower animals manifested manner medulla oblongata ment metaphysicians mind motion natural language nerves ness never observed organ is large parietal bones particular passion perceive perception persons Philoprogenitiveness philosophers philosophy of mind Phrenological Society Phrenology physiologists possess predominates present primitive principle produce propensity proportion qualities reflection regard remarkable Secretiveness Self-Esteem sensation sense skull Spurzheim talent taste tendency Thomas Brown tion Veneration viduals
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Página 370 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 382 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
Página 298 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 410 - I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Página 485 - By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.
Página 283 - Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
Página 410 - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 373 - Quickly.'' coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Página 283 - ... vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the...
Página 217 - Yes, he stands forward." JOHNSON. "True, Sir; but if a man is to stand forward, he should wish to do it, not in an awkward posture, not in rags, not so as that he shall only be exposed to ridicule.