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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... become wea- ried by one kind of action , it could no more obtain rest by turning to some- thing else , than a man who had tired himself out by walking east , could rest himself by walking north . But the mind is relieved by changing its ...
... become wea- ried by one kind of action , it could no more obtain rest by turning to some- thing else , than a man who had tired himself out by walking east , could rest himself by walking north . But the mind is relieved by changing its ...
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... becomes very sick , and is brought at once to the crisis . The diseases to which it predisposes are apoplexy , gout , fevers , inflammatory rheumatism , plethoric complaints , flowing of blood to the head , asthma , & c . Upon it health ...
... becomes very sick , and is brought at once to the crisis . The diseases to which it predisposes are apoplexy , gout , fevers , inflammatory rheumatism , plethoric complaints , flowing of blood to the head , asthma , & c . Upon it health ...
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... becomes excited , lead to the same conclusion . Through the medium of the spinal column , and by means of the nerves that go off from the spinal marrow through the joints of the back bone , the brain holds intercourse with every part of ...
... becomes excited , lead to the same conclusion . Through the medium of the spinal column , and by means of the nerves that go off from the spinal marrow through the joints of the back bone , the brain holds intercourse with every part of ...
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... become great or pre - eminent . This is the eloquent * temperament , and also the poetical , though in poets the mental often predominates over both the others . In singers it also predominates , though the vital generaliy assumes the ...
... become great or pre - eminent . This is the eloquent * temperament , and also the poetical , though in poets the mental often predominates over both the others . In singers it also predominates , though the vital generaliy assumes the ...
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... become still more predominant , and thereby to withdraw the strength from the others , on the principle that an ... becomes a most important one , HOW CAN THESE TEMPERAMENTS BE INCREASED OR DECREASED ? How can their balance be preserved ...
... become still more predominant , and thereby to withdraw the strength from the others , on the principle that an ... becomes a most important one , HOW CAN THESE TEMPERAMENTS BE INCREASED OR DECREASED ? How can their balance be preserved ...
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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.
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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...