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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... CHARACTER AND TALENTS , OF AS GIVEN BY With reference to those pages of " Phrenology Proved , Illustrated , and Applied , " which will be found a full and correct delineation of the intellectual and moral character and mental ...
... CHARACTER AND TALENTS , OF AS GIVEN BY With reference to those pages of " Phrenology Proved , Illustrated , and Applied , " which will be found a full and correct delineation of the intellectual and moral character and mental ...
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... character and manifesta tions , will be indicated by the written figures 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 : figure 1 sig nifying VERY SMALL ; 2 , SMALL ; 3 , MODERATE ; 4 , AVERAGE ; 5 , FULL ; 6 , LARGE ; 7. VERY LARGE . In order to make the ...
... character and manifesta tions , will be indicated by the written figures 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 : figure 1 sig nifying VERY SMALL ; 2 , SMALL ; 3 , MODERATE ; 4 , AVERAGE ; 5 , FULL ; 6 , LARGE ; 7. VERY LARGE . In order to make the ...
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... character , also , the moral and intellectual faculties will predominate . This tempera- ment is seldom connected with depravity , but generally with talent , and a manifestation , not only of superior talents , but of the solid ...
... character , also , the moral and intellectual faculties will predominate . This tempera- ment is seldom connected with depravity , but generally with talent , and a manifestation , not only of superior talents , but of the solid ...
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... character : with activity only average or fair , will have but a moderate amount of intellect , and even this scanty ... character ; presents many strong and weak points of mind and character ; is too much the sport of circumstances ...
... character : with activity only average or fair , will have but a moderate amount of intellect , and even this scanty ... character ; presents many strong and weak points of mind and character ; is too much the sport of circumstances ...
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... character , if not prone to revelry and prriigacy , and extremely liable to pervert this faculty . with adhesiveness and conscientiousness only moderate or average , and ac- quisitiveness lage , or very large , will marry quite as much ...
... character , if not prone to revelry and prriigacy , and extremely liable to pervert this faculty . with adhesiveness and conscientiousness only moderate or average , and ac- quisitiveness lage , or very large , will marry quite as much ...
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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...