The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 4A. Waldie, 1843 - Phrenology |
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... things first , books afterwards , Common - school studies not adapted to call out or strengthen the intellects of children , but the reverse , Means of strengthening Memory of Events , 52 53 55 61 62 66 67 69 74 75 The inaction of ...
... things first , books afterwards , Common - school studies not adapted to call out or strengthen the intellects of children , but the reverse , Means of strengthening Memory of Events , 52 53 55 61 62 66 67 69 74 75 The inaction of ...
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... thing would happen ; now , all things are caused . Without them , men could rely upon nothing , could accomplish nothing : with them , they can attain given ends by the application of appropriate means . To secure happiness and prevent ...
... thing would happen ; now , all things are caused . Without them , men could rely upon nothing , could accomplish nothing : with them , they can attain given ends by the application of appropriate means . To secure happiness and prevent ...
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... thing forward , never succeeds . It inevitably hastens their death , besides weakening their brains while they live ... things that grow , individuals as well as species . Accordingly , we find long - lived persons to have been very ...
... thing forward , never succeeds . It inevitably hastens their death , besides weakening their brains while they live ... things that grow , individuals as well as species . Accordingly , we find long - lived persons to have been very ...
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... thing but the right thing . Where are those meteors of poetic genius , the Misses David- son ? In their graves at fifteen ! Philoprogenitiveness must be governed by intellect . Not one married person in a hun- dred is fit to become a ...
... thing but the right thing . Where are those meteors of poetic genius , the Misses David- son ? In their graves at fifteen ! Philoprogenitiveness must be governed by intellect . Not one married person in a hun- dred is fit to become a ...
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... thing , have we pointed out superior phrenological develop- ments , and shown , in the light of this principle , that the very things of which they complained , were stars of promise to their children . True , all play - loving boys ...
... thing , have we pointed out superior phrenological develop- ments , and shown , in the light of this principle , that the very things of which they complained , were stars of promise to their children . True , all play - loving boys ...
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Page 45 - 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 100 - Show me that a soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up strife.
Page 60 - For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry...
Page 264 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent ; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear ; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 138 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 284 - He must now go by direction, and not so much to labour where otherwise he would have been most wanted, as to nurse his broken constitution. He soon adds to the number of mysterious providences, — to the number of innocent victims, rather, of cultivating the mind and heart, at the unnecessary and sinful expense of the body, — to the number of loud calls to alternate mental and corporeal action daily, for the reciprocal sanity and vigour of both body and mind.
Page 264 - ... birds are kept, who has taken a cerastes with his naked hand, from a number of others lying at the bottom of the tub, has put it upon his bare head, covered it with the common red cap he wears...
Page 284 - If so, what a sacred sanction there is for useful bodily employment, subordinate to the occupation of the mind. ' When thought shall need no brains, and nearly four hundred organs of motion cease to constitute the principal portion of the human body, then may the student dispense with muscular exertion. If now he neglect it, low diet or disease may be his portion, and a certain decay of his frame.
Page 229 - ... then was; and by their Trade with foreign Colonies they have been able to obtain great Quantities of Gold and Silver to remit hither, in Return for the Manufactures of this Country. New York and New Jersey have also increased and improved greatly, during the same Period, with the Use of Paper Money ; so that it does not appear to be of the ruinous Nature ascribed to it.
Page 25 - ... the •whole channel of thought and feeling for each generation, is scooped out by that which preceded it, and the stream always fills but rarely overflows its embankments. The greatest pains are taken to acquaint the people with their personal and political duties, wherein they again set us an example worthy of imitation.