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... suppose a dark line be observed invariably to exist on the forehead of man , and on the heads of all such animals as sing , or recognize the melodious succes- sion of notes , and to be invariably absent from the heads of such animals as ...
... suppose a dark line be observed invariably to exist on the forehead of man , and on the heads of all such animals as sing , or recognize the melodious succes- sion of notes , and to be invariably absent from the heads of such animals as ...
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... Suppose a proposition to be false , to de- cide that it is so without investigation , is childish and pre- sumptuous . The really laudable thing is the search , and the impartial manner of conducting it . But how rare this attention and ...
... Suppose a proposition to be false , to de- cide that it is so without investigation , is childish and pre- sumptuous . The really laudable thing is the search , and the impartial manner of conducting it . But how rare this attention and ...
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... suppose that the perceptions and cogitations of the mind , ( as being spiritual things , ) present themselves to us naked and destitute of all organized forms ; but this is ow- ing to their ignorance of the formation and offices of the ...
... suppose that the perceptions and cogitations of the mind , ( as being spiritual things , ) present themselves to us naked and destitute of all organized forms ; but this is ow- ing to their ignorance of the formation and offices of the ...
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... Suppose Gall had merely asserted that the amative propensity is proportionate to the cerebellum , who does not feel how unsatisfactory would have been such a mode of publishing his discovery ; and who does not feel as he reads the cases ...
... Suppose Gall had merely asserted that the amative propensity is proportionate to the cerebellum , who does not feel how unsatisfactory would have been such a mode of publishing his discovery ; and who does not feel as he reads the cases ...
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... Suppose I cut the muscles of my arm across , there would be organic derangement , completely incapacitating me from using my limb . Suppose I should bandage my arm tightly and keep it motionless for six months , at the end of that time ...
... Suppose I cut the muscles of my arm across , there would be organic derangement , completely incapacitating me from using my limb . Suppose I should bandage my arm tightly and keep it motionless for six months , at the end of that time ...
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activity animals anterior lobe ascertain attention beautiful Benevolence blood body bone brain called Causality cause cerebellum cerebral character child colour Combe constitution convolutions coronal region course deficient Destructiveness discovered discovery disease distinguished doctrines Edinburgh effect examination excited exist external fact feeling forehead functions Gall Gall's gentleman GEORGE COMBE gives head human idea Ideality individual insane intellectual faculties Joseph Hume lady lectures Love of Approbation Love of Young Madame de Staël manifested ment mental mental philosophy mind mode moral sentiments muscles natural language nerves nervous ness never New-York object observation organ is situated perceive persons philosophy philosophy of mind Phrenological Society phrenology possess posterior predominant present produce propensities recollect remarkable Self-Esteem Sir Walter Scott skull Spurzheim superior Suppose talents temperament things tion told true truth Veneration Vimont
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Página 115 - Would he were fatter! but I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music...
Página 308 - For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
Página 212 - Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo ! all grow old and die — but see again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses — ever gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms.
Página 253 - 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 210 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored 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...
Página 308 - His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant : thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things ; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Página 210 - 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.
Página 145 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Página 115 - Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Página 253 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; 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...