A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen and Lyon, 1837 - 664 من الصفحات |
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... moral and intellectual preeminence com- mensurate with their physical and political advantages . Phren- ology professes to be such a system ; and as such I present it to their consideration . The great discoverer of it has been for ...
... moral and intellectual preeminence com- mensurate with their physical and political advantages . Phren- ology professes to be such a system ; and as such I present it to their consideration . The great discoverer of it has been for ...
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... moral and political world , tend to produce this effect , and to give a stability to human institutions often so little proportionate to their real value , or to their general utility . Even in matters purely intellectual , and in which ...
... moral and political world , tend to produce this effect , and to give a stability to human institutions often so little proportionate to their real value , or to their general utility . Even in matters purely intellectual , and in which ...
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... moral philosopher of the mind , as if they were sepa- rate subjects of investigation , either not at all , or only in a remote and unimportant degree connected . In common society , too , men speak of the dispositions and faculties of ...
... moral philosopher of the mind , as if they were sepa- rate subjects of investigation , either not at all , or only in a remote and unimportant degree connected . In common society , too , men speak of the dispositions and faculties of ...
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... moral sense , these capacities of happiness , these high aspiring hopes , are felt , and enjoyed , and manifested , by means of his superior nervous system . Its injury weakens , its imperfection limits , its destruc- tion ( humanly ...
... moral sense , these capacities of happiness , these high aspiring hopes , are felt , and enjoyed , and manifested , by means of his superior nervous system . Its injury weakens , its imperfection limits , its destruc- tion ( humanly ...
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... moral faculties . Some idiots , he observes , are as remarkable for correct moral feelings as some great geniuses are for the reverse . In his Traité du Goitre et de la Crétinisme , Foderé thus speaks , p . 133 : - " It is remarked ...
... moral faculties . Some idiots , he observes , are as remarkable for correct moral feelings as some great geniuses are for the reverse . In his Traité du Goitre et de la Crétinisme , Foderé thus speaks , p . 133 : - " It is remarked ...
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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.