A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1838 - 664 páginas |
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... instances they have reeled back from the encounter , their defeat must be ascribed solely to the inherent weakness of their cause : -it deprived them of the advantages of their talents , while truth added to the strength of the party ...
... instances they have reeled back from the encounter , their defeat must be ascribed solely to the inherent weakness of their cause : -it deprived them of the advantages of their talents , while truth added to the strength of the party ...
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... instance is given by Pinel of an idiot girl who manifested a most wonderful propensity to imitate whatever sne heard or saw , but who displayed no other intellectual faculty in a perceptible degree , and never attached an idea to the ...
... instance is given by Pinel of an idiot girl who manifested a most wonderful propensity to imitate whatever sne heard or saw , but who displayed no other intellectual faculty in a perceptible degree , and never attached an idea to the ...
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... instances as these of the partial affection of the mental faculties , but it is needless to occupy time with more ... instance in which these functions have been as success- fully performed by impaired organs as they would have been ...
... instances as these of the partial affection of the mental faculties , but it is needless to occupy time with more ... instance in which these functions have been as success- fully performed by impaired organs as they would have been ...
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George Combe. instances , nature curiously adds to the power of motion , by increas ing the size of that part of the ... instance , in the head of a North American Indian ( represented in one of his plates ) , the internal nostrils are ...
George Combe. instances , nature curiously adds to the power of motion , by increas ing the size of that part of the ... instance , in the head of a North American Indian ( represented in one of his plates ) , the internal nostrils are ...
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... instance of the mind being manifested vigorously by a very small brain . Deficiency of size , however , in the brain is not the only cause of idiocy . A brain may be large and diseased , and mental imbecility arise from the disease ...
... instance of the mind being manifested vigorously by a very small brain . Deficiency of size , however , in the brain is not the only cause of idiocy . A brain may be large and diseased , and mental imbecility arise from the disease ...
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Acquisitiveness activity appears arises attention beauty Benevolence betwixt brain Causality cause Cautiousness cerebellum character circumstances colors Combativeness combination conception Conscientiousness consequence constitution convolutions deficient degree delight desire Destructiveness directed discover discovery disease disposition distinguished doctrine dura mater Edinburgh Review effect emotion endowment equal excited existence external objects fact feeling frontal bone frontal sinus functions Gall mentions gives head hence human Ideality ideas imagine impression individual insane instance instinctive intellectual faculties language largely developed Love of Approbation lower animals manifested manner medulla oblongata ment metaphysicians mind motion muscles nature nerves ness never observed optic nerve organ is large parietal bone particular passion perceive perception persons Philoprogenitiveness philosophers philosophy of mind Phrenological Society Phrenology physiologists possess predominates present primitive principle produces propensity proportion qualities reflection regard remarkable Secretiveness Self-Esteem sensation sense situated skull society Spurzheim supposed talent taste tendency Thomas Brown tion Veneration
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