The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volume 17

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MacLachlan, Stewart, and Company, 1844 - Phrenology

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Page 370 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 341 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 366 - The breath no sooner left his father's body, But that his wildness, mortified in him, Seemed to die too ; * yea, at that very moment, Consideration like an angel came, And whipped the offending Adam out of him ; Leaving his body as a paradise, To envelop and contain celestial spirits.
Page 394 - twill return to refresh them at eve. In the woods of the North there are insects that prey On the brain of the elk till his very last sigh *; Oh, Genius! thy patrons, more cruel than they, First feed on thy brains, and then leave thee to die ! EPISTLE FROM TOM CRIB TO BIG BEN* CONCERNING SOME FOCL PLAT IN A LATE TRANSACTION, f
Page 83 - What are the proper questions to be submitted to the jury, where a person alleged to be afflicted with insane delusion respecting one or more particular subjects or persons, is charged with the commission of a crime (murder, for example), and insanity is set up as a defence?" And, thirdly, "In what terms ought the question to be left to the jury as to the prisoner's state of mind at the time when the act was committed?
Page 83 - What is the law respecting alleged crimes committed by persons afflicted with insane delusion in respect of one or more particular subjects or persons; as, for instance, where at the time of the commission of the alleged crime the accused knew he was acting contrary to law, but did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some supposed public benefit?" In answer to which question, assuming...
Page 127 - All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects. The most beautiful forms have something about them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms ; and which by a long habit of observing what any set of objects of the same kind have in common, has acquired the power of discerning what...
Page 180 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 83 - Can a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime? or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was labouring under any and what delusion at the time?
Page 293 - Mental Hygiene, or an Examination of the Intellect and Passions, designed to illustrate their Influence on Health and the Duration of Life. By William Sweetser, MD, late Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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