A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen and Lyon, 1837 - 664 páginas |
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... thing to recommend it which can arise from what is great , new , and singular ; though it was not a theory or system of opinions , but the generalization of facts made known by experiments , and though it was brought for- ward in a most ...
... thing to recommend it which can arise from what is great , new , and singular ; though it was not a theory or system of opinions , but the generalization of facts made known by experiments , and though it was brought for- ward in a most ...
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... thing moved , namely , the arm , is conceived to be corporeal . Nevertheless , it is positively established by anatomical and physi- ological investigation , that this conclusion is erroneous - that the act is not purely mental , but is ...
... thing moved , namely , the arm , is conceived to be corporeal . Nevertheless , it is positively established by anatomical and physi- ological investigation , that this conclusion is erroneous - that the act is not purely mental , but is ...
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... thing above mediocrity . 4thly , The phenomena of dreaming are at variance with the sup- position of the mind manifesting all its faculties by means of a single organ , while they are quite consistent with , and explicable by , that of ...
... thing above mediocrity . 4thly , The phenomena of dreaming are at variance with the sup- position of the mind manifesting all its faculties by means of a single organ , while they are quite consistent with , and explicable by , that of ...
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... thing as dreaming could take place . 5thly , The admitted phenomena of Partial Idiocy and Partial Insanity , are so plainly and strongly in contradiction with the notion of a single organ of mind , that Pinel himself , no friend to ...
... thing as dreaming could take place . 5thly , The admitted phenomena of Partial Idiocy and Partial Insanity , are so plainly and strongly in contradiction with the notion of a single organ of mind , that Pinel himself , no friend to ...
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... thing which did not immediately concern himself . He tries to make efforts to free himself from it ; but , on the other hand , he is convinced that it is incurable . If any one remarks the incoherence in his ideas in his 3 PLURALITY OF ...
... thing which did not immediately concern himself . He tries to make efforts to free himself from it ; but , on the other hand , he is convinced that it is incurable . If any one remarks the incoherence in his ideas in his 3 PLURALITY OF ...
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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.