The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 2A. Waldie, 1840 - Phrenology |
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... manner in which he was led into this course of discovery and investigation . " From my earliest youth , " says Dr. Gall , " I lived in the bosom of my family , composed of several brothers and sisters , and in the midst of a great ...
... manner in which he was led into this course of discovery and investigation . " From my earliest youth , " says Dr. Gall , " I lived in the bosom of my family , composed of several brothers and sisters , and in the midst of a great ...
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... manner , by an almost imperceptible induction , he conceived himself warranted in believing that particular mental powers are indicated by particular configurations of the head . " The successive steps by which Dr. Gall proceeded in his ...
... manner , by an almost imperceptible induction , he conceived himself warranted in believing that particular mental powers are indicated by particular configurations of the head . " The successive steps by which Dr. Gall proceeded in his ...
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... manner , attending to every question , and allowing some more voluble , though not less admiring than the rest , to interrupt him , patiently resuming his arguments when they had finished . He is incessantly meditating and observing ...
... manner , attending to every question , and allowing some more voluble , though not less admiring than the rest , to interrupt him , patiently resuming his arguments when they had finished . He is incessantly meditating and observing ...
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... manner of living was far removed from outward display and show ; his habits were simple and plain ; and the style of his writings , though not flowery or highly polished , yet indicate good taste and judgment . But the superiority of ...
... manner of living was far removed from outward display and show ; his habits were simple and plain ; and the style of his writings , though not flowery or highly polished , yet indicate good taste and judgment . But the superiority of ...
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... manner of obloquy and reproach - have been branded , while living , with epithets the most abusive and opprobrious -and have gone to their graves comparatively unknown and unre- warded , leaving it for posterity to vindicate their ...
... manner of obloquy and reproach - have been branded , while living , with epithets the most abusive and opprobrious -and have gone to their graves comparatively unknown and unre- warded , leaving it for posterity to vindicate their ...
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Page 356 - Then suddenly, with timorous eye She fled to me and wept. She half enclosed me with her arms, She pressed me with a meek embrace; And bending back her head, looked up, And gazed upon my face. 'Twas partly love, and partly fear, And partly 'twas a bashful art, That I might rather feel, than see, The swelling of her heart.
Page 459 - perfect even as our Father which is in Heaven is perfect.
Page 166 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul: Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII. Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son ! "All that we know is, nothing can be known.
Page 398 - For that which I do I allow not : for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 437 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 247 - ... studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge become habitual and intuitive wedded itself to his habitual feelings, and at length gave birth to that stupendous power, by which he stands alone, with no equal or second in his own class; to that power, which seated him on one of the two glory-smitten summits of the poetic mountain, with Milton as his compeer not rival.
Page 7 - The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in general, and of the Brain in particular; with observations upon the possibility of ascertaining several intellectual and moral dispositions of man and animals, by the configuration of their heads,
Page 203 - ... where they undoubtedly, that by their labours, counsels, and prayers, have been earnest for the common good of religion and their country, shall receive above the inferior orders of the blessed, the regal addition of principalities, legions, and thrones into their glorious titles, and in supereminence of beatific vision, progressing the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity, shall clasp inseparable hands with joy and blifls. in overmeasure for ever.
Page 141 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 254 - Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.