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... talents of several living characters are adverted to , and compared with the development of their mental organs , which is a new feature in phi- losophical discussion , and might , without explanation , appear to some readers to be ...
... talents of several living characters are adverted to , and compared with the development of their mental organs , which is a new feature in phi- losophical discussion , and might , without explanation , appear to some readers to be ...
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... talent with which , as they are pleased to say , I have advocated its cause ; and they have reminded the public , that I am known in the literary world only as a Phrenologist . • Few words will suffice in answer to these observa- viii ...
... talent with which , as they are pleased to say , I have advocated its cause ; and they have reminded the public , that I am known in the literary world only as a Phrenologist . • Few words will suffice in answer to these observa- viii ...
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... talents , while truth add- ed to the strength of him whom he assailed . I plead guilty of being known to the world only as a Phrenologist . Believing , as I do , that the same Divine Wisdom which ordained the universe , presided also at ...
... talents , while truth add- ed to the strength of him whom he assailed . I plead guilty of being known to the world only as a Phrenologist . Believing , as I do , that the same Divine Wisdom which ordained the universe , presided also at ...
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... talent for copying paintings , for rhyming , or for music . I have known several who taught themselves to play passably on the organ and harpsichord ; others who understood , without ever having had a master , the repairing of watches ...
... talent for copying paintings , for rhyming , or for music . I have known several who taught themselves to play passably on the organ and harpsichord ; others who understood , without ever having had a master , the repairing of watches ...
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... talent for acquiring a knowledge of natural history , or languages . The compositions of one were remarkable for elegance ; the style of another was stiff and dry ; while a third connected his reasonings in the closest manner , and ...
... talent for acquiring a knowledge of natural history , or languages . The compositions of one were remarkable for elegance ; the style of another was stiff and dry ; while a third connected his reasonings in the closest manner , and ...
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action activity appears arises attention beauty Benevolence betwixt brain bust Causality cause Cautiousness cerebellum character colours Combativeness combination conceive conceptions Conscientiousness constitution deficient degree Destructiveness discover disease dispositions distinguished doctrine Dr BROWN's Dr SPURZHEIM dura mater Edinburgh Review effect emotion endowment equally excited existence fact facul feeling forehead frontal bone frontal sinus functions genius gives gratify head hence human Ideality ideas imagine impression indivi individual insanity instance instinctive intellectual faculties language largely developed Love of Approbation manifestations manner medulla oblongata memory ment mental power metaphysicians mind moral sentiments motion nature neral nerves ness never observed organ is large pain particular perceive perception persons phenomena philosophers philosophy of mind Phrenological Society Phrenology physiologists possess predominates present principle produce propensity proportion qualities recollection regard remarkable says Self-Esteem sensation sense shew skull supposed talent taste thing THOMAS BROWN tion Tune Veneration
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Page 428 - 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.
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Page 552 - 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.
Page 344 - ... 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; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
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Page 290 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 326 - ... vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the...
Page 308 - 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 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...