The Principles of PhrenologyWilliam Tait, 1838 - 223 Seiten |
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... emotion of pity or generous regret . The vice of philo- sophers in all ages , has been that of not having sufficient confidence in the excellence of human nature , in its generous impulses , in its healthy mental condition , in its ...
... emotion of pity or generous regret . The vice of philo- sophers in all ages , has been that of not having sufficient confidence in the excellence of human nature , in its generous impulses , in its healthy mental condition , in its ...
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... emotion or sentiment in our Maker , which is con- tradictory of that to which we have applied the same abstract epithets in us , may be what emotion or sentiment shall so happen , but certainly cannot be what we mean by the same feeling ...
... emotion or sentiment in our Maker , which is con- tradictory of that to which we have applied the same abstract epithets in us , may be what emotion or sentiment shall so happen , but certainly cannot be what we mean by the same feeling ...
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... emotion , the large and prodigiously de- veloped hemispheres of the human brain are only of use to guard against a vacuum , or to shape the face with a nicer symmetry . We would then ask our facetious an- tagonist , if the mind have no ...
... emotion , the large and prodigiously de- veloped hemispheres of the human brain are only of use to guard against a vacuum , or to shape the face with a nicer symmetry . We would then ask our facetious an- tagonist , if the mind have no ...
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... emotion to another , he rules each mind by its own peculiar sympathies— for , while to the contentious and destructive spirit , he furnishes satire , invective , deep - set anger , to the patriot he speaks of his own dear island - to ...
... emotion to another , he rules each mind by its own peculiar sympathies— for , while to the contentious and destructive spirit , he furnishes satire , invective , deep - set anger , to the patriot he speaks of his own dear island - to ...
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... emotion , were active , the blood increased , the circulation became more rapid , and , in consequence , the brain swelled so much as to protrude beyond the cranium - that when intellectual activity ceased , the blood gradually subsided ...
... emotion , were active , the blood increased , the circulation became more rapid , and , in consequence , the brain swelled so much as to protrude beyond the cranium - that when intellectual activity ceased , the blood gradually subsided ...
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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.