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... able , zealous , and active supporter and propagator of the new Science of Phrenology , or the doctrine founded on the dis- coveries of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim . In the preface to the Essay which we are now about to consider , he ...
... able , zealous , and active supporter and propagator of the new Science of Phrenology , or the doctrine founded on the dis- coveries of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim . In the preface to the Essay which we are now about to consider , he ...
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... able , zealous , and active supporter and propagator of the new Science of Phrenology , or the doctrine founded on the dis- coveries of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim . In the preface to the Essay which we are now about to consider , he ...
... able , zealous , and active supporter and propagator of the new Science of Phrenology , or the doctrine founded on the dis- coveries of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim . In the preface to the Essay which we are now about to consider , he ...
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... able to teach them to their flocks , or to combine them in any satisfactory way with the doctrines of Christianity . It is only a very few years since Mr Combe , the chief living cultivator of this science , has adopted the views he now ...
... able to teach them to their flocks , or to combine them in any satisfactory way with the doctrines of Christianity . It is only a very few years since Mr Combe , the chief living cultivator of this science , has adopted the views he now ...
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... private distribution , I also printed a little tract in answer to it , ( which was likewise privately distributed , ) but without being able to produce any material change in his views . At last , finding Mr PREFACE . ix.
... private distribution , I also printed a little tract in answer to it , ( which was likewise privately distributed , ) but without being able to produce any material change in his views . At last , finding Mr PREFACE . ix.
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... able to address him in his own language ; and that as I had formerly studied his book with the view of answering it , the labour was already half performed . These reasons may perhaps be held sufficient to account for my engaging in the ...
... able to address him in his own language ; and that as I had formerly studied his book with the view of answering it , the labour was already half performed . These reasons may perhaps be held sufficient to account for my engaging in the ...
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Page 124 - If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
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Page 184 - God bless us!" and "Amen" the other: As they had seen me with these hangman's hands. Listening their fear, I could not say "Amen" When they did say "God bless us!
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Page 124 - When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
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