A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1838 - 664 страници |
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... equal to that due to inspira- tion itself ; and even so late as the time of Francis I. , the writings of Ramus against Aristotle were publicly burned , his adversaries were declared heretics , and , under pain of being sent to the gal ...
... equal to that due to inspira- tion itself ; and even so late as the time of Francis I. , the writings of Ramus against Aristotle were publicly burned , his adversaries were declared heretics , and , under pain of being sent to the gal ...
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... equal success , when a great part of the brain is injured or destroy- ed , as when its whole structure is sound and entire . If the fact were really as here stated , the brain would form an ' exception to the general laws of organic ...
... equal success , when a great part of the brain is injured or destroy- ed , as when its whole structure is sound and entire . If the fact were really as here stated , the brain would form an ' exception to the general laws of organic ...
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... equal , is a measure of power in its function , i . e . that small size indicates weak power , and large size strong power , all other circumstances being alike . * In our infancy , we have been delighted with the fable of the old man ...
... equal , is a measure of power in its function , i . e . that small size indicates weak power , and large size strong power , all other circumstances being alike . * In our infancy , we have been delighted with the fable of the old man ...
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... equal . The strength of iron itself and adamantine rock depends on temperature , for either will melt with a certain degree of heat , and at a still higher point they will be dissipated into vapor . The true principle then , is , that ...
... equal . The strength of iron itself and adamantine rock depends on temperature , for either will melt with a certain degree of heat , and at a still higher point they will be dissipated into vapor . The true principle then , is , that ...
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... equal . Let us now attend to the brain . Were I to affirm that differ- ence of size in the brain would produce no effect on the vigor of its functions , -- or that a small brain in perfect health , and of a sound constitution , is equal ...
... equal . Let us now attend to the brain . Were I to affirm that differ- ence of size in the brain would produce no effect on the vigor of its functions , -- or that a small brain in perfect health , and of a sound constitution , is equal ...
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Acquisitiveness activity appears arises attention beauty Benevolence betwixt brain Causality cause Cautiousness cerebellum character circumstances colors Combativeness combination conception Conscientiousness consequence constitution convolutions deficient degree delight desire Destructiveness directed discover discovery disease disposition distinguished doctrine dura mater Edinburgh Review effect emotion endowment equal excited existence external objects fact feeling frontal bone frontal sinus functions Gall mentions gives head hence human Ideality ideas imagine impression individual insane instance instinctive intellectual faculties language largely developed Love of Approbation lower animals manifested manner medulla oblongata ment metaphysicians mind motion muscles nature nerves ness never observed optic nerve organ is large parietal bone particular passion perceive perception persons Philoprogenitiveness philosophers philosophy of mind Phrenological Society Phrenology physiologists possess predominates present primitive principle produces propensity proportion qualities reflection regard remarkable Secretiveness Self-Esteem sensation sense situated skull society Spurzheim supposed talent taste tendency Thomas Brown tion Veneration
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Страница 374 - 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.
Страница 295 - ... 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...
Страница 489 - 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.
Страница 262 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untiitor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler Heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
Страница 414 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, 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.
Страница 262 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Страница 163 - I could not forbear shaking my Head and smiling a little at his Ignorance. And, being no Stranger to the Art of War, I gave him a Description of Cannons, Culverins, Muskets, Carabines, Pistols, Bullets, Powder, Swords, Bayonets, Battles, Sieges, Retreats, Attacks, Undermines, Countermines, Bombardments, Seafights; Ships sunk with a Thousand Men; twenty Thousand killed on each Side; dying Groans, Limbs flying in the Air: Smoak, Noise, Confusion, trampling to Death under Horses...
Страница 377 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip 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...
Страница 280 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war...
Страница 163 - ... feet: flight, pursuit, victory: fields strewed with carcases left for food to dogs, and wolves, and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning and destroying. And, to set forth the valour of my own dear countrymen, I assured him, that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship; and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of all the spectators.