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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... writer commenced the practice of phrenology , he followed his predecessors in the matter of the temperaments , until his own experience taught him effectually , by the repeated mistakes into which they led him , that they were in error ...
... writer commenced the practice of phrenology , he followed his predecessors in the matter of the temperaments , until his own experience taught him effectually , by the repeated mistakes into which they led him , that they were in error ...
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... writer , in reference to a recent dissection of the brain of one of the most talented men of Delaware , that he never saw the convolutions so deep and large - the furrows being an inch in depth . Some writers say five times as much ...
... writer , in reference to a recent dissection of the brain of one of the most talented men of Delaware , that he never saw the convolutions so deep and large - the furrows being an inch in depth . Some writers say five times as much ...
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... writer is preparing for the press an essay on Temperance considered phre mologically and physiologically , which will be shortly issued . CULTIVATING THE TEMPERAMENT IN PROPORTION 27 ous society . " 26 PRACTICAL PHRENOLOGY . Human ...
... writer is preparing for the press an essay on Temperance considered phre mologically and physiologically , which will be shortly issued . CULTIVATING THE TEMPERAMENT IN PROPORTION 27 ous society . " 26 PRACTICAL PHRENOLOGY . Human ...
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... writer therefore solicits the communication of well authenti cated facts , in reference to the relations between parents and children , and the hereditary transmission of mental or physical qualities . The names of both subject and ...
... writer therefore solicits the communication of well authenti cated facts , in reference to the relations between parents and children , and the hereditary transmission of mental or physical qualities . The names of both subject and ...
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... writer values measurements less than most phrenologists do , because , 1. , when one is tall , his organs are long and slim , but when he is short and thick set , they will be short and broad ; see chapter on physiognomy ; and , 2 ...
... writer values measurements less than most phrenologists do , because , 1. , when one is tall , his organs are long and slim , but when he is short and thick set , they will be short and broad ; see chapter on physiognomy ; and , 2 ...
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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...