My Battle for Life: The Autobiography of a PhrenologistDavid George Goyder Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1857 - 604 страници |
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... learned from the history of the times . But when it ceased , it introduced a military mania , which has never since , I think , had a parallel in Britain . The first threatened invasion of Napoleon , the great colossus of war , at the ...
... learned from the history of the times . But when it ceased , it introduced a military mania , which has never since , I think , had a parallel in Britain . The first threatened invasion of Napoleon , the great colossus of war , at the ...
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... learned to read . I have not the slightest recollection of any one teaching me my letters - doubtless , this was the work of my good mother -but I do not remember the time when I was unable to read ; and next to the delight which I took ...
... learned to read . I have not the slightest recollection of any one teaching me my letters - doubtless , this was the work of my good mother -but I do not remember the time when I was unable to read ; and next to the delight which I took ...
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... learned that my uncle was using all his influence to get me admitted into the Foundation of King Charles I. at Westminster . My uncle , happily for me , possessed interest sufficient to get me entered , and early in the month of July ...
... learned that my uncle was using all his influence to get me admitted into the Foundation of King Charles I. at Westminster . My uncle , happily for me , possessed interest sufficient to get me entered , and early in the month of July ...
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... learned all the Latin declensions , merely by hearing the different boys repeat them as tasks . I did the same by Lindley Murray's Grammar , which was our task book , and I soon acquired a character for a good memory . But there was one ...
... learned all the Latin declensions , merely by hearing the different boys repeat them as tasks . I did the same by Lindley Murray's Grammar , which was our task book , and I soon acquired a character for a good memory . But there was one ...
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... learned from their writings retain their places in my memory . Our master used frequently to read to us from a work entitled ' Elegant Extracts . ' Оп one occasion he read a fragment called ' Sir Bertrand , ' which revived my taste for ...
... learned from their writings retain their places in my memory . Our master used frequently to read to us from a work entitled ' Elegant Extracts . ' Оп one occasion he read a fragment called ' Sir Bertrand , ' which revived my taste for ...
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Accrington acquainted animals apostle appeared attended Benevolence body boys brain brother called cerebellum chapel character Christ Christian Church dead rise developed discourse Divine doctrine Dunfermline duties Emanuel Swedenborg evil external faculties father feelings fontanel frequently Gall gentleman give Glasgow head hear heart heaven Holy individual intellectual Jack Wild James Wilkes Jerusalem Church labor lady lecture letter Liverpool living Lord Love of Approbation master means ment mind minister moral natural never observed occipital bone organ organisation parents parietal bones person Pestalozzi Phrenological Society phrenology poor portrait possessed present propensities punishment readers received resurrection Saffron Hill Scotland Scriptures Secretiveness sermon skull Society soul spirit Spurzheim Street Sweden Swedenborg Swedenborgians talents temperament things thou thought tion told took true truth whole words writings
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Страница 557 - I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world: And for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.
Страница 269 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope...
Страница 364 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Страница 364 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Страница 460 - And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
Страница 177 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Страница 446 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Страница 578 - He meant no harm in scribbling ; 'twas his way Upon all topics ; 'twas, besides, his bread, Of which he butter'd both sides ; 'twould delay Too long the assembly (he was pleased to dread) And take up rather more time than a day, To name his works— he would but cite a few — Wat Tyler — Rhymes on Blenheim — Waterloo.
Страница 177 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Страница 361 - O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...