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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... knowledge to be of no value , because men can eat , drink , and sleep , without it , I rejoice that the old philosophy continues to be honoured by your support . The admirers of the new system reckon no moral or physical truth ...
... knowledge to be of no value , because men can eat , drink , and sleep , without it , I rejoice that the old philosophy continues to be honoured by your support . The admirers of the new system reckon no moral or physical truth ...
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... knowledge and learning , which with hard study he hath all his time been labouring for , and turn him- self out stark - naked in quest afresh of new notions ? All the arguments that can be used will be as little able to prevail , as the ...
... knowledge and learning , which with hard study he hath all his time been labouring for , and turn him- self out stark - naked in quest afresh of new notions ? All the arguments that can be used will be as little able to prevail , as the ...
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... knowledge that the true tale of that " weak invention of the enemy , " the turnip , was as fol- lows : In April 1821 , a medical gentleman in Edinburgh , aided by a landscape painter , fashioned a turnip into the nearest resemblance to ...
... knowledge that the true tale of that " weak invention of the enemy , " the turnip , was as fol- lows : In April 1821 , a medical gentleman in Edinburgh , aided by a landscape painter , fashioned a turnip into the nearest resemblance to ...
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... knowledge . This sufficiency , how- ever , supplies one of the Baconian requisites for the admis- sibility of a cause . The other , the existence , is still dis- puted ; phrenologists say it is demonstrated , as will be plain to their ...
... knowledge . This sufficiency , how- ever , supplies one of the Baconian requisites for the admis- sibility of a cause . The other , the existence , is still dis- puted ; phrenologists say it is demonstrated , as will be plain to their ...
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... knowledge ; yet in general he preferred the company of those he counted his inferiors , because his Self - Esteem was gratified by the deference which they paid to him . If he had once uttered an opinion , the plain- est and strongest ...
... knowledge ; yet in general he preferred the company of those he counted his inferiors , because his Self - Esteem was gratified by the deference which they paid to him . If he had once uttered an opinion , the plain- est and strongest ...
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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...