The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 4Proprietors, 1827 - Phrenology |
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... muscles connected with the " larynx , at the command of the will ; and yet consciousness " gives us no intimation either of the existence or functions of " these muscles . In like manner , the leg 14 LETTER FROM GEORGE COMBE.
... muscles connected with the " larynx , at the command of the will ; and yet consciousness " gives us no intimation either of the existence or functions of " these muscles . In like manner , the leg 14 LETTER FROM GEORGE COMBE.
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... muscles at the command of the will ; " and yet of the existence and operation of these nerves and " muscles consciousness gives us no intimation . We are con- " scious of the act of volition which puts them in motion , and of the result ...
... muscles at the command of the will ; " and yet of the existence and operation of these nerves and " muscles consciousness gives us no intimation . We are con- " scious of the act of volition which puts them in motion , and of the result ...
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... muscular motion , → distinct from cheating at cards . Secondly , the brain has no ascertained function , if it is not the organ of mind . Dr Ro- get , your fellow - labourer in the refutation of Phrenology , says , that " the brain is ...
... muscular motion , → distinct from cheating at cards . Secondly , the brain has no ascertained function , if it is not the organ of mind . Dr Ro- get , your fellow - labourer in the refutation of Phrenology , says , that " the brain is ...
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... muscles of the hand or arm " of the actors , for there is no question of physical violence in either case , — but solely from difference in their mental energies . So com- pletely is this the truth , and so distinct are the qualities of ...
... muscles of the hand or arm " of the actors , for there is no question of physical violence in either case , — but solely from difference in their mental energies . So com- pletely is this the truth , and so distinct are the qualities of ...
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... muscles , or instruments of motion , acquire their power , in fact , " through the influence of their nerves , whilst the will to make the " muscles act resides in the brain . " - P . 46. But the subject , he adds , is still involved in ...
... muscles , or instruments of motion , acquire their power , in fact , " through the influence of their nerves , whilst the will to make the " muscles act resides in the brain . " - P . 46. But the subject , he adds , is still involved in ...
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Page 316 - THE harp that once through TARA'S halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on TARA'S walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more ! n.
Page 99 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 198 - And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail ; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam ; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron : and one bearing a shield...
Page 229 - Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy : on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with...
Page 348 - But some man will say, How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come ? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him; and to every seed his own body.
Page 211 - I do remember him at Clement's Inn like a man made after supper of a cheeseparing' when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: a...
Page 193 - ... 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...
Page 318 - The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer ; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Page 572 - 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?
Page 317 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...