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... insanity are so plainly and strongly in contradiction with the notion of a single organ of mind , that Pinel himself , no friend to Phrenology , asks if they can be reconciled to such a conception . Partial idiocy is that state in which ...
... insanity are so plainly and strongly in contradiction with the notion of a single organ of mind , that Pinel himself , no friend to Phrenology , asks if they can be reconciled to such a conception . Partial idiocy is that state in which ...
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... insanity , or that state in which one or more faculties of the mind are deranged , while the integrity of the remainder is unaffected , is known by the name of monomania , and appears equally with the former to ex- clude the possibility ...
... insanity , or that state in which one or more faculties of the mind are deranged , while the integrity of the remainder is unaffected , is known by the name of monomania , and appears equally with the former to ex- clude the possibility ...
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... insanity , asks whether all this collection of facts can be reconciled with the opinion of a single faculty and a single organ of the understanding ? Even in the Edinburgh Review , ( No. XCIV . , ) Sir Charles Bell is commended for " at ...
... insanity , asks whether all this collection of facts can be reconciled with the opinion of a single faculty and a single organ of the understanding ? Even in the Edinburgh Review , ( No. XCIV . , ) Sir Charles Bell is commended for " at ...
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... insanity , of monomania , and of partial in- juries of the brain - furnish presumptive evidence that the mind manifests a plurality of faculties by means of a variety of organs , and exclude the supposition of a single power operating ...
... insanity , of monomania , and of partial in- juries of the brain - furnish presumptive evidence that the mind manifests a plurality of faculties by means of a variety of organs , and exclude the supposition of a single power operating ...
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... Insanity , says : " We are very well aware that a great number of facts repeated under various circumstances are necessary before we can draw a general conclusion ; but with respect to idiotism from birth , we have made such a number of ...
... Insanity , says : " We are very well aware that a great number of facts repeated under various circumstances are necessary before we can draw a general conclusion ; but with respect to idiotism from birth , we have made such a number of ...
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Page 306 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 334 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 335 - When I remember all The friends, so linked together, I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted — Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 390 - By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.
Page 225 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven...
Page 265 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Page 349 - I went on with tolerable composure in the silence of the night, (a night I can never forget,) till I came to the assassination scene, when the horrors of the scene rose to a degree that made it impossible for me to get farther. I snatched up my candle, and hurried out of the room, in a paroxysm of terror. My dress was of silk, and the rustling of it, as I ascended the stairs to go to bed, seemed to my panic-struck fancy like the movement of a spectre pursuing me. At last I reached my chamber, where...
Page 306 - Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly tnind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
Page 308 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some ; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 156 - The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest, that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose, As asses are.