The Principles of PhrenologyWilliam Tait, 1838 - 223 Seiten |
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... effects than ever were anticipated ; and that branches of it , which are of no importance in themselves , are , as they have always been , keys to the door of other truths , which have opened to that temple where are deposited the ...
... effects than ever were anticipated ; and that branches of it , which are of no importance in themselves , are , as they have always been , keys to the door of other truths , which have opened to that temple where are deposited the ...
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... effects of education , or rather of his ignorance , still equally did fate sentence him to the wilderness , and those savage tutors who could prune the branch , or twist the twig so that it could no longer grow as heaven would have ...
... effects of education , or rather of his ignorance , still equally did fate sentence him to the wilderness , and those savage tutors who could prune the branch , or twist the twig so that it could no longer grow as heaven would have ...
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... , and every act of vice , has its cerebral effect , and transmits to posterity a vitiated or improved mental constitution . It explains how the exercise of organs increases their liability to action , and 16 ADVANTAGES OF PHRENOLOGY .
... , and every act of vice , has its cerebral effect , and transmits to posterity a vitiated or improved mental constitution . It explains how the exercise of organs increases their liability to action , and 16 ADVANTAGES OF PHRENOLOGY .
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... effect of which we fully comprehended from the inter- nal sympathies of our own hearts . Why is the Bible not addressed to lions , and tigers , and wolves ? Because they do not comprehend the meaning of what it conveys . Why does it ...
... effect of which we fully comprehended from the inter- nal sympathies of our own hearts . Why is the Bible not addressed to lions , and tigers , and wolves ? Because they do not comprehend the meaning of what it conveys . Why does it ...
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... effects of his labours , in contrasting the skulls of early Gentiles , with what 1800 years of Christianity has done to those of British civilisation . In its efficacy towards the training of youth , the discovery of the tendencies ...
... effects of his labours , in contrasting the skulls of early Gentiles , with what 1800 years of Christianity has done to those of British civilisation . In its efficacy towards the training of youth , the discovery of the tendencies ...
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Acquisitiveness action activity altogether Andrew Combe anterior lobe appears Benevolence betwixt blood brain called Causality Cautiousness cerebellum cerebral character circulation colours Combe combined consciousness consequence coronal surface cranium Daniel O'Connell deficient desire Destructiveness disease doctrine effect emotion equally excited existence external fact feelings fibrin Firmness forehead former function Gall give head heart herbivori Hewett Watson human ideas Imitation impressions individual instinct intellectual language largely developed latter Love of Approbation lower animals Malebranche manifested mental metaphysicians mind nature nerves nervous ness never objects observed occipital bone optic nerve organ parietal bone particular passion peculiar perceive persons phenomena Philoprogenitiveness philosophy Phrenology possess present principle produce propensity quadrupeds reason recollection relation remarkable resemblance result says Secretiveness Self-Esteem sense skull sound Spurzheim stimulates superciliary ridge supposed Temperament theory thing Thomas Brown thought tion truth Tune Vimont whole Wonder words
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Seite 111 - So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous : verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Seite 195 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Seite 195 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Seite 195 - While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the barn-door Stoutly struts his dames before...
Seite 11 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of man, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation (John v.
Seite 29 - A good sherrissack hath a twofold operation in it: it ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Seite 26 - 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. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; My soul the father: and these two beget A generation of still-breeding thoughts...
Seite 66 - ... of spelling, reading, writing, and calculating, and gradually became acquainted with the persons and objects around, like a being for the first time brought into the world. In these exercises she made considerable proficiency. But after a few months, another fit of somnolency invaded her. On rousing from it, she found herself restored to the state she was in before the first paroxysm ; but was wholly ignorant of every event and occurrence that had befallen her afterwards. The former condition...
Seite 66 - State, and the latter the New State ; and she is as unconscious of her double character as two distinct persons are of their respective natures. For example, in her old state, she possesses all her original knowledge ; in her new state only what she acquired since.
Seite 99 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care, No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.