The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 9A. Waldie, 1847 - Phrenology |
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... give up work , and enjoy myself in the bosom of my family . We got rich , and thought we would retire in a few years to enjoy home , but have kept putting it off from year to year till it was too late ; and here I am , bed- ridden with ...
... give up work , and enjoy myself in the bosom of my family . We got rich , and thought we would retire in a few years to enjoy home , but have kept putting it off from year to year till it was too late ; and here I am , bed- ridden with ...
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... give a short definition of its Faculties , or of the functions they respectively subserve in the mental economy . 1. AMATIVENESS . - Connubial love ; the attachment of the sexes to each other . Adapted to the means employed for the ...
... give a short definition of its Faculties , or of the functions they respectively subserve in the mental economy . 1. AMATIVENESS . - Connubial love ; the attachment of the sexes to each other . Adapted to the means employed for the ...
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... give its reason ; accomplishes much with limited means ; desires to know the why and wherefore ; gives ability to reason , infer , invent , contrive , take advantage of circumstances , and predict results ; takes comprehen- sive views ...
... give its reason ; accomplishes much with limited means ; desires to know the why and wherefore ; gives ability to reason , infer , invent , contrive , take advantage of circumstances , and predict results ; takes comprehen- sive views ...
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... give a happy practical illustration of the talents they confer . " His propensity to observe and comment upon the human character was , so far as I can learn , the only circumstance which distinguished him , advantageously , from his ...
... give a happy practical illustration of the talents they confer . " His propensity to observe and comment upon the human character was , so far as I can learn , the only circumstance which distinguished him , advantageously , from his ...
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... give any adequate de- scription . They can only say that it struck upon the ear and upon the heart , IN A MANNER WHICH LANGUAGE CANNOT TELL . Add to all these , his wonder- working fancy , and the peculiar phraseology in which he ...
... give any adequate de- scription . They can only say that it struck upon the ear and upon the heart , IN A MANNER WHICH LANGUAGE CANNOT TELL . Add to all these , his wonder- working fancy , and the peculiar phraseology in which he ...
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Page 87 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of Liberty and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 334 - And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice ; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Page 110 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 87 - Peace, peace ! but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Page 87 - Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
Page 86 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak ; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Page 85 - ... Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third
Page 65 - I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked ; 18.
Page 125 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 230 - Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.