A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen and Lyon, 1837 - 664 من الصفحات |
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... compared with the developement of their mental organs , which is a new feature in philosophical discussion , and might , with- out explanation , appear to some readers to be improper : But I have founded such observations on the printed ...
... compared with the developement of their mental organs , which is a new feature in philosophical discussion , and might , with- out explanation , appear to some readers to be improper : But I have founded such observations on the printed ...
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... compared differed in kind and quality ; and that if he took ten iron rods , and tried to break them , the difficulty would be as great compared with that of severing one , as to break ten twigs of wood compared with that of breaking one ...
... compared differed in kind and quality ; and that if he took ten iron rods , and tried to break them , the difficulty would be as great compared with that of severing one , as to break ten twigs of wood compared with that of breaking one ...
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... compared with the brain and mental vigor of an adult . * Secondly , Small size in the brain is an invariable cause of idiocy . Phrenolo- gists have in vain called upon their opponents to produce a single instance of the mind being ...
... compared with the brain and mental vigor of an adult . * Secondly , Small size in the brain is an invariable cause of idiocy . Phrenolo- gists have in vain called upon their opponents to produce a single instance of the mind being ...
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... comparing one brain with another . The same brain has in general the same constitution , and on the principle that size is a measure of power , the largest organs in each individual will be naturally the most vigorous . If the ...
... comparing one brain with another . The same brain has in general the same constitution , and on the principle that size is a measure of power , the largest organs in each individual will be naturally the most vigorous . If the ...
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... compared the size of the brain of man with that of the lower animals ; contrasting at the same time their mental powers ; and have been led to the conclusion that it is the organ of the mind , and that its superior developement in man ...
... compared the size of the brain of man with that of the lower animals ; contrasting at the same time their mental powers ; and have been led to the conclusion that it is the organ of the mind , and that its superior developement in man ...
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الصفحة 370 - 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.
الصفحة 382 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
الصفحة 298 - ... 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.
الصفحة 410 - 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...
الصفحة 485 - 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.
الصفحة 283 - Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
الصفحة 410 - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
الصفحة 373 - 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...
الصفحة 283 - ... vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the...
الصفحة 217 - Yes, he stands forward." JOHNSON. "True, Sir; but if a man is to stand forward, he should wish to do it, not in an awkward posture, not in rags, not so as that he shall only be exposed to ridicule.