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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... importance , or which have been more fully elucidated in subsequent volumes ; while others - forming the more numerous class of treatises are devoted to the exposure of errors yet widely prevalent , or to the discussion and illustration ...
... importance , or which have been more fully elucidated in subsequent volumes ; while others - forming the more numerous class of treatises are devoted to the exposure of errors yet widely prevalent , or to the discussion and illustration ...
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... importance ; but you forget that the two tables of the skull are not parallel , and hence , that whatever external appear- ances may indicate , you can draw no conclusion as to the size of the brain beneath . Phren . This is one of the ...
... importance ; but you forget that the two tables of the skull are not parallel , and hence , that whatever external appear- ances may indicate , you can draw no conclusion as to the size of the brain beneath . Phren . This is one of the ...
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... important know- ledge in the only way in which it is to be found ; and when the phrenologists have convinced the public , first , of the utter ignorance of their opponents , and , secondly , of the adequacy of their own method of ...
... important know- ledge in the only way in which it is to be found ; and when the phrenologists have convinced the public , first , of the utter ignorance of their opponents , and , secondly , of the adequacy of their own method of ...
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... test of examination , and prove to be a correct interpretation of nature , they will surpass , in substantial importance to mankind , the discoveries even of Harvey , Newton , or Galileo ; and this age A DIALOGUE ON PHRENOLOGY .. 9.
... test of examination , and prove to be a correct interpretation of nature , they will surpass , in substantial importance to mankind , the discoveries even of Harvey , Newton , or Galileo ; and this age A DIALOGUE ON PHRENOLOGY .. 9.
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... important power SECRETIVE- NESS , which enables all perfect actors ( and imitation is The reverse of the medal is inscribed as follows : - " Quod , sono vocis scitè modulando , sive hæc naturæ dos sit sive artis , notis : axous- Tins ...
... important power SECRETIVE- NESS , which enables all perfect actors ( and imitation is The reverse of the medal is inscribed as follows : - " Quod , sono vocis scitè modulando , sive hæc naturæ dos sit sive artis , notis : axous- Tins ...
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