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... appear- ed Lord Bacon , one of the most remarkable men the world has produced . With " his supreme and searching glance , he ranged over the whole circle of the sciences , " detected the ab- surdities of the schoolmen , and exposed them ...
... appear- ed Lord Bacon , one of the most remarkable men the world has produced . With " his supreme and searching glance , he ranged over the whole circle of the sciences , " detected the ab- surdities of the schoolmen , and exposed them ...
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... appears to me that the " In medio tutissimus ibis , " or middle course principle , has been much more lauded than it deserves . A middle course ! where is there such a course ? To a greater or less extent , whatever is not right is ...
... appears to me that the " In medio tutissimus ibis , " or middle course principle , has been much more lauded than it deserves . A middle course ! where is there such a course ? To a greater or less extent , whatever is not right is ...
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... appears to me , that no author had approached more * An Inquiry , & c . , with an introductory notice , by George Combe , Philadelphia , 1839 . nearly to the doctrines of Gall than Emanuel Swedenborg , 50 OPINIONS OF DR . BENJAMIN RUSH .
... appears to me , that no author had approached more * An Inquiry , & c . , with an introductory notice , by George Combe , Philadelphia , 1839 . nearly to the doctrines of Gall than Emanuel Swedenborg , 50 OPINIONS OF DR . BENJAMIN RUSH .
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... appears to me to consist in the currency of a number of opinions formerly proscribed , but which have , from time to time , burst the barriers of prejudice and bigotry , rather than in an enlarged spirit of candour to- wards opposing ...
... appears to me to consist in the currency of a number of opinions formerly proscribed , but which have , from time to time , burst the barriers of prejudice and bigotry , rather than in an enlarged spirit of candour to- wards opposing ...
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... appears to us to have allowed his natural acute ness and professional tendency to hair - splitting to bias his better judgment - we can say with sincerity , that to judge from their works , they are alike deficient in learning and ...
... appears to us to have allowed his natural acute ness and professional tendency to hair - splitting to bias his better judgment - we can say with sincerity , that to judge from their works , they are alike deficient in learning and ...
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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...