A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1838 - 664 páginas |
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... remarkable for correct moral feelings as some great geniuses are for the reverse . In his Traité du Goitre et de la Crétinisme , Foderé thus speaks , p . 133 : - " It is remarked , that , by an inex- plicable singularity , some of these ...
... remarkable for correct moral feelings as some great geniuses are for the reverse . In his Traité du Goitre et de la Crétinisme , Foderé thus speaks , p . 133 : - " It is remarked , that , by an inex- plicable singularity , some of these ...
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... remarkable for his religious feelings , although exceedingly deficient in intel- lectual power , and other moral sentiments ; and , among the cretins , many are to be found who scarcely manifest any other faculty of the mind except that ...
... remarkable for his religious feelings , although exceedingly deficient in intel- lectual power , and other moral sentiments ; and , among the cretins , many are to be found who scarcely manifest any other faculty of the mind except that ...
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... remarkable , not for mere cleverness , but for great force of character , such as Napoleon Bonaparte , have had large heads . Fourthly , It is an ascertained fact , that nations in whom the brain is large , possess so great a mental ...
... remarkable , not for mere cleverness , but for great force of character , such as Napoleon Bonaparte , have had large heads . Fourthly , It is an ascertained fact , that nations in whom the brain is large , possess so great a mental ...
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... remarkable for elegance ; the style of another was stiff and dry ; while a third connected his reasonings in the closest manner , and clothed his argument in the most forcible language . Their dispositions were equally different ; and ...
... remarkable for elegance ; the style of another was stiff and dry ; while a third connected his reasonings in the closest manner , and clothed his argument in the most forcible language . Their dispositions were equally different ; and ...
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... remarkable faculty became the objects of his attention . By degrees , he conceived himself to have found external characteristics , which indicated a decided disposition for Painting , Music , and the Mechanical Arts . He became ...
... remarkable faculty became the objects of his attention . By degrees , he conceived himself to have found external characteristics , which indicated a decided disposition for Painting , Music , and the Mechanical Arts . He became ...
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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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Página 374 - 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 295 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Página 489 - By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.
Página 262 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untiitor'd 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 ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler Heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
Página 414 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Página 262 - 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 163 - I could not forbear shaking my Head and smiling a little at his Ignorance. And, being no Stranger to the Art of War, I gave him a Description of Cannons, Culverins, Muskets, Carabines, Pistols, Bullets, Powder, Swords, Bayonets, Battles, Sieges, Retreats, Attacks, Undermines, Countermines, Bombardments, Seafights; Ships sunk with a Thousand Men; twenty Thousand killed on each Side; dying Groans, Limbs flying in the Air: Smoak, Noise, Confusion, trampling to Death under Horses...
Página 377 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some ; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Página 280 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war...
Página 163 - ... feet: flight, pursuit, victory: fields strewed with carcases left for food to dogs, and wolves, and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning and destroying. And, to set forth the valour of my own dear countrymen, I assured him, that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship; and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of all the spectators.