Practical Phrenology: Giving a Concise Elementary View of Phrenology, Presenting Some New and Important Remarks Upon the Temperaments: and Describing the Primary Mental Powers in Seven Different Degrees of Development |
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... amount of animal life and vigour to be worked off , either by the muscles in physical action , or by the brain in thought and feeling ; great ardour of desire ; great zeal and enthusiasm ; powerful feelings , pas sions and impulses ...
... amount of animal life and vigour to be worked off , either by the muscles in physical action , or by the brain in thought and feeling ; great ardour of desire ; great zeal and enthusiasm ; powerful feelings , pas sions and impulses ...
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... amount of nervou matter to be packed up in a given compass , and their depth and size are proportionate to the amount of mind and talent . Thus in animals and idiots they are small and shallow ; in mer of ordinary talents , much deeper ...
... amount of nervou matter to be packed up in a given compass , and their depth and size are proportionate to the amount of mind and talent . Thus in animals and idiots they are small and shallow ; in mer of ordinary talents , much deeper ...
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... They have amply developed chests ; an excellent muscular organization ; the vital motive temperament predomi . nating in youth , with a large amount of the 2 * COMBINATION OF TEMPERAMENTS . 17 African do do Marvellousness, 141.
... They have amply developed chests ; an excellent muscular organization ; the vital motive temperament predomi . nating in youth , with a large amount of the 2 * COMBINATION OF TEMPERAMENTS . 17 African do do Marvellousness, 141.
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... amount of the elements of the mental , so inat , when their energies reach the brain , mind assumes the ascendancy , convert . ing their powerful resources into mental greatness . Precocity is the opposite of this , the mental apparatus ...
... amount of the elements of the mental , so inat , when their energies reach the brain , mind assumes the ascendancy , convert . ing their powerful resources into mental greatness . Precocity is the opposite of this , the mental apparatus ...
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... amount to much , and usually die young . Consumptive families are mostly very smart , ut very slim , poor in flesh , and sharp - favoured . One having the vital predominant , the motive fair or strong , and the men tal deficient , when ...
... amount to much , and usually die young . Consumptive families are mostly very smart , ut very slim , poor in flesh , and sharp - favoured . One having the vital predominant , the motive fair or strong , and the men tal deficient , when ...
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Page 426 - Take therefore the talent from him, and give it to him that hath ten talents. For to him that hath shall be given, and he shall have more abundantly ; but from him that hath not, shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 166 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 155 - rejoice with those that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep.
Page 422 - He also gave him dominion over the fish of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth.
Page 42 - Which varies in the two sexes of the same species ; 3. Which is not proportionate to the other faculties of the same individual ; 4. Which does not manifest itself simultaneously with the other faculties ; that is, which appears or disappears earlier or later in life than other faculties ; 5.
Page 24 - Sir Charles Bell also observes, " that the bones of the head are moulded to the brain, and the peculiar shapes of the bones of the head are determined by the original peculiarity in the shape of the brain.
Page 32 - Intellect and of the propelling powers large, or very large, although not really great in intellect, or deep, are very clever ; have considerable talent, and that so distributed that it shows to be even more or better than it really is ; are capable of being a good scholar, doing a fine business, and, with advantages and application, of becoming distinguished somewhat, yet inadequate to great undertakings ; can...
Page 42 - ... animal and not in another; 2, which varies in the sexes of the same species ; 3, which is not proportionate to the other faculties of the same individual; 4, which does not manifest itself simultaneously with the other faculties, that is, which appears or disappears earlier or later than they...