Selections from the Phrenological Journal: Comprising Forty Articles in the First Five VolumesRobert Cox Maclachlan & Steward, and John Anderson Jun., 1836 - 359 páginas |
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... ideas ; but you have not answered my remark , that there are no distinguished names among the votaries of your doctrine , the weight of whose reputation might afford some reason for condescending to examine it . Phren . You have ...
... ideas ; but you have not answered my remark , that there are no distinguished names among the votaries of your doctrine , the weight of whose reputation might afford some reason for condescending to examine it . Phren . You have ...
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... idea that the art was not preternatural . It is by no means clear that Saul saw Sa- muel , the word perceived being more properly understood , as he takes his information from the woman with regard to what did appear , and is prostrate ...
... idea that the art was not preternatural . It is by no means clear that Saul saw Sa- muel , the word perceived being more properly understood , as he takes his information from the woman with regard to what did appear , and is prostrate ...
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... ideas . But I must stop my illus- trations to come to the proper business of this letter , which is simply to give you an account of the cerebral develop- ment and manifestations of an individual whose character I had leisure to study ...
... ideas . But I must stop my illus- trations to come to the proper business of this letter , which is simply to give you an account of the cerebral develop- ment and manifestations of an individual whose character I had leisure to study ...
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... idea of . The deck was covered with every sort of lumber , in the midst of which , pigs , dogs , hens , ducks , and geese , were joining the chorus , and increasing the chaotic din of a crew in the last stage of drunkenness , every ...
... idea of . The deck was covered with every sort of lumber , in the midst of which , pigs , dogs , hens , ducks , and geese , were joining the chorus , and increasing the chaotic din of a crew in the last stage of drunkenness , every ...
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... idea of Master Hubard's rapidity and dex- terity of workmanship , we select the following description . from the letter of a correspondent : " I went to Glasgow one day ignorant of this boy's existence . It happened that I had two or ...
... idea of Master Hubard's rapidity and dex- terity of workmanship , we select the following description . from the letter of a correspondent : " I went to Glasgow one day ignorant of this boy's existence . It happened that I had two or ...
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Página 196 - If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which they prescribe, some of us may live to see a reverse of that picture from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives of Africa engaged in the calm occupations of industry, in the pursuits of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their land,* which at some...
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Página 190 - Shall neither the cries of innocence, expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators, nor the majesty of the Roman Commonwealth, nor the fear of the justice of his country, restrain the licentious and wanton cruelty of a monster, who, in confidence of his riches, strikes at the root of liberty, and sets mankind at defiance...
Página 329 - ... varies not only in different individuals, but in the same individual at different times.
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Página 201 - I tread upon, the other redeems it from all its insignificance, for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as the glories of the firmament.
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Página 291 - ... authority scowled upon it, and taste was disgusted by it, and fashion was ashamed of it, and all the beauteous speculation of former days was cruelly broken up by this new announcement of the better philosophy, and scattered like the fragments of an aerial vision, over which the past generations of the world had been slumbering their profound and their pleasing reverie.
Página 201 - The other suggests to me, that within and beneath all that minuteness which the aided eye of man has been able to...