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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... reason for condescending to examine it . Phren . You have admitted its novelty ; and you are aware that men who possess reputation in physiology or mental philosophy would appear to lose rather than gain renown , were they to confess ...
... reason for condescending to examine it . Phren . You have admitted its novelty ; and you are aware that men who possess reputation in physiology or mental philosophy would appear to lose rather than gain renown , were they to confess ...
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... reason to translate the Hebrew Ob , plural , Oboth ( generally trans- lated Python , or magician ) , by Demon or Spirit , which was believed to dwell in the belly , and speak within the possessed without their exercising their own ...
... reason to translate the Hebrew Ob , plural , Oboth ( generally trans- lated Python , or magician ) , by Demon or Spirit , which was believed to dwell in the belly , and speak within the possessed without their exercising their own ...
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... reason to believe that so imposing and profit- able an engine to move a rude people was unknown to the necromancers and enchanters of the dark ages ; but we have no account of an individual ventriloquist earlier than the sixteenth ...
... reason to believe that so imposing and profit- able an engine to move a rude people was unknown to the necromancers and enchanters of the dark ages ; but we have no account of an individual ventriloquist earlier than the sixteenth ...
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... reason- ings , and in all our schemes , for the improvement of the race . If the phrenologists are well - founded in believing that Combativeness , Destructiveness , Acquisitiveness , and Secretiveness exist , it will be impossible , by ...
... reason- ings , and in all our schemes , for the improvement of the race . If the phrenologists are well - founded in believing that Combativeness , Destructiveness , Acquisitiveness , and Secretiveness exist , it will be impossible , by ...
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... reason of his Grace's pensive- ness . ' My Lord , ' said the Archbishop , ' I have great rea- son of sorrow with respect to my sons , one of whom has wit and no grace , another grace but no wit . ' ' Your case , ' By sound ideas , and ...
... reason of his Grace's pensive- ness . ' My Lord , ' said the Archbishop , ' I have great rea- son of sorrow with respect to my sons , one of whom has wit and no grace , another grace but no wit . ' ' Your case , ' By sound ideas , and ...
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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...