A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen and Lyon, 1837 - 664 páginas |
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... latter notion , so far from being self - evident , appears so improbable as to require even stronger facts to prove it than the opposite view ; and that the presumptions are all in favor of a plurality of mental faculties , manifesting ...
... latter notion , so far from being self - evident , appears so improbable as to require even stronger facts to prove it than the opposite view ; and that the presumptions are all in favor of a plurality of mental faculties , manifesting ...
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... latter . This is what is meant by other natural conditions being equal . As the temperaments are distinguishable by the countenance , and the general make of the body , and as the brain partakes of the general constitution , we possess ...
... latter . This is what is meant by other natural conditions being equal . As the temperaments are distinguishable by the countenance , and the general make of the body , and as the brain partakes of the general constitution , we possess ...
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... latter as are left by the tide , or which are found on the rocks ; they feed upon the most disgusting substances , snakes , worms , maggots , and what- ever trash falls in their way . They know , indeed , how to kindle a fire ; in that ...
... latter as are left by the tide , or which are found on the rocks ; they feed upon the most disgusting substances , snakes , worms , maggots , and what- ever trash falls in their way . They know , indeed , how to kindle a fire ; in that ...
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... latter soon gave up the painful attempt to draw any kind of deductions from what . he witnessed , and disposed of the difficulty as he best could , when he had to render an account of what he had seen . Up to this day , our memory is ...
... latter soon gave up the painful attempt to draw any kind of deductions from what . he witnessed , and disposed of the difficulty as he best could , when he had to render an account of what he had seen . Up to this day , our memory is ...
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... latter branch , and none on the former ; which cir- cumstance also is in exact correspondence with the nerves rising from the spinal marrow . The two branches combine at a short distance from their origin , and are universally ...
... latter branch , and none on the former ; which cir- cumstance also is in exact correspondence with the nerves rising from the spinal marrow . The two branches combine at a short distance from their origin , and are universally ...
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Acquisitiveness activity appears arises attention beauty Benevolence betwixt brain bust Causality cause Cautiousness cerebellum cerebral character circumstances colors Combativeness combination conceive conception Conscientiousness constitution Constructiveness convolutions deficient degree delight desire Destructiveness directed discover disease disposition distinguished doctrine dura mater Edinburgh Review effect emotion endowment equal excited existence external objects fact faculty feeling female frontal bone frontal sinus functions Gall mentions genius gives gratify hence human Ideality ideas imagine impression individual insanity instance instinctive intellectual largely developed Love of Approbation lower animals manifested manner medulla oblongata ment metaphysicians mind motion natural language nerves ness never observed organ is large parietal bones particular passion perceive perception persons Philoprogenitiveness philosophers philosophy of mind Phrenological Society Phrenology physiologists possess predominates present primitive principle produce propensity proportion qualities reflection regard remarkable Secretiveness Self-Esteem sensation sense skull Spurzheim talent taste tendency Thomas Brown tion Veneration viduals
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