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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... nature , from the exercise of mind as mind , which , more than any thing else , calls into harmonious action , and that , too , in a higher degree , the greatest number of faculties ! The perfection of man's nature consists in the harmo ...
... nature , from the exercise of mind as mind , which , more than any thing else , calls into harmonious action , and that , too , in a higher degree , the greatest number of faculties ! The perfection of man's nature consists in the harmo ...
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... nature evidently is for man to exercise every part of his body , every faculty of his mind , in due proportion . " Nature's wants are few but loud . " A few hours ' labour each day , say from five to eight , will earn all the ...
... nature evidently is for man to exercise every part of his body , every faculty of his mind , in due proportion . " Nature's wants are few but loud . " A few hours ' labour each day , say from five to eight , will earn all the ...
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... nature will allow , and every thing which tends either immediately or remotely to induce disease or shorten life ... nature studied , especially human nature as developed by phreno- logy and physiology , and man's happiness would be ...
... nature will allow , and every thing which tends either immediately or remotely to induce disease or shorten life ... nature studied , especially human nature as developed by phreno- logy and physiology , and man's happiness would be ...
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... nature . Mankind have tried " the good ( ? ) old way " quite long enough , and suffered quite enough thereby . That every thing as it now is , is all wrong , is fully evinced by the hard times , the bad health , the misery and vexation ...
... nature . Mankind have tried " the good ( ? ) old way " quite long enough , and suffered quite enough thereby . That every thing as it now is , is all wrong , is fully evinced by the hard times , the bad health , the misery and vexation ...
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... nature ; such as condiments , flesh , tea , coffee , and high - seasoned or highly stimulating food of any kind . And it will probably be found , that animal food , by keeping the body in a highly excited , not to say fever- ish state ...
... nature ; such as condiments , flesh , tea , coffee , and high - seasoned or highly stimulating food of any kind . And it will probably be found , that animal food , by keeping the body in a highly excited , not to say fever- ish state ...
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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...