A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1838 - 664 páginas |
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... seen ; and what I maintain in argument , I have found confirmed by experience . Those who have attacked the doctrines , on the other hand , have not studied them as science ; they have not read the facts , on which they found their ...
... seen ; and what I maintain in argument , I have found confirmed by experience . Those who have attacked the doctrines , on the other hand , have not studied them as science ; they have not read the facts , on which they found their ...
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... seen heads very different from each other , but each possessing a nasal organ much larger than that described by Soemmering . These anatomical observations accord with the accounts given by the most respecta- ble travellers , concerning ...
... seen heads very different from each other , but each possessing a nasal organ much larger than that described by Soemmering . These anatomical observations accord with the accounts given by the most respecta- ble travellers , concerning ...
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... seen that the brain is the organ of the mind , that it is not a single organ , but that the analogy of all the other organs , the successive developement of the faculties , —the phenomena of partial genius , -partial insanity ...
... seen that the brain is the organ of the mind , that it is not a single organ , but that the analogy of all the other organs , the successive developement of the faculties , —the phenomena of partial genius , -partial insanity ...
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... 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 pained by the recollection of the barbarous 42 LABORS OF PHYSIOLOGISTS .
... 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 pained by the recollection of the barbarous 42 LABORS OF PHYSIOLOGISTS .
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George Combe. E F B C D E A B the spinal marrow seen in front ; the division into lateral portions appearing at the line A B. The nervous cord C arises from the posterior lateral division , and gives sensibility . The swelling D is its ...
George Combe. E F B C D E A B the spinal marrow seen in front ; the division into lateral portions appearing at the line A B. The nervous cord C arises from the posterior lateral division , and gives sensibility . The swelling D is its ...
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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 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...
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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.