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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... strong , which would produce just that diversity of disposition and talent which actually exists among men . See axioms 1 and 3 . I will relate a single fact illustrating this point , which occurred at a public test - examination in ...
... strong , which would produce just that diversity of disposition and talent which actually exists among men . See axioms 1 and 3 . I will relate a single fact illustrating this point , which occurred at a public test - examination in ...
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... strong as the other ' . I had made thousands of similar observations , which I now recollected , and had often said that Benton owed his talents more to his chest and habits than to the size of his brain . The conclusion was thus forced ...
... strong as the other ' . I had made thousands of similar observations , which I now recollected , and had often said that Benton owed his talents more to his chest and habits than to the size of his brain . The conclusion was thus forced ...
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... strong pulse ; large and strong lungs ; powerful voice ; short , sound , and well set teeth ; plump person ; wide nostrils ; abundant flesh ; red face , and indeed the skin everywhere showing a great supply and flow of blood ; hair ...
... strong pulse ; large and strong lungs ; powerful voice ; short , sound , and well set teeth ; plump person ; wide nostrils ; abundant flesh ; red face , and indeed the skin everywhere showing a great supply and flow of blood ; hair ...
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... strong , but coarse and harsh feelings ; the movements like those of the draught horse , slow , but powerful and efficient ; with much force and energy of character . The mental qualities of this temperament take their complexion ...
... strong , but coarse and harsh feelings ; the movements like those of the draught horse , slow , but powerful and efficient ; with much force and energy of character . The mental qualities of this temperament take their complexion ...
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... strong , but often awkward and seldom polished . He will be best adapted to some laborious occupation , and enjoy hard work more than books or literary pur suits ; have great power of feeling , and thus require much self - government ...
... strong , but often awkward and seldom polished . He will be best adapted to some laborious occupation , and enjoy hard work more than books or literary pur suits ; have great power of feeling , and thus require much self - government ...
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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...