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... compared with the developement of their mental organs , which is a new feature in philosophical discussion , and might , with- out explanation , appear to some readers to be improper : But I have founded such observations on the printed ...
... compared with the developement of their mental organs , which is a new feature in philosophical discussion , and might , with- out explanation , appear to some readers to be improper : But I have founded such observations on the printed ...
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... compared differed in kind and quality ; and that if he took ten iron rods , and tried to break them , the difficulty would be as great compared with that of severing one , as to break ten twigs of wood compared with that of breaking one ...
... compared differed in kind and quality ; and that if he took ten iron rods , and tried to break them , the difficulty would be as great compared with that of severing one , as to break ten twigs of wood compared with that of breaking one ...
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... compared with the brain and mental vigor of an adult . Small size in the brain is an invariable cause of idiocy . gists have in vain called upon their opponents to produce a single instance of the mind being manifested vigorously by a ...
... compared with the brain and mental vigor of an adult . Small size in the brain is an invariable cause of idiocy . gists have in vain called upon their opponents to produce a single instance of the mind being manifested vigorously by a ...
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... comparing one brain with another . The same brain has in general the same constitution , and on the principle that size is a measure of power , the largest organs in each individual will be naturally the most vigorous . If the ...
... comparing one brain with another . The same brain has in general the same constitution , and on the principle that size is a measure of power , the largest organs in each individual will be naturally the most vigorous . If the ...
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... compared the size of the brain of man with that of the lower animals ; contrasting at the same time their mental powers ; and have been led to the conclusion that it is the organ of the mind , and that its superior developement in man ...
... compared the size of the brain of man with that of the lower animals ; contrasting at the same time their mental powers ; and have been led to the conclusion that it is the organ of the mind , and that its superior developement in man ...
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Page 374 - 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 295 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 489 - 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 262 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untiitor'd 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 ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
Page 414 - 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 262 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 163 - I could not forbear shaking my Head and smiling a little at his Ignorance. And, being no Stranger to the Art of War, I gave him a Description of Cannons, Culverins, Muskets, Carabines, Pistols, Bullets, Powder, Swords, Bayonets, Battles, Sieges, Retreats, Attacks, Undermines, Countermines, Bombardments, Seafights; Ships sunk with a Thousand Men; twenty Thousand killed on each Side; dying Groans, Limbs flying in the Air: Smoak, Noise, Confusion, trampling to Death under Horses...
Page 377 - 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 280 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war...
Page 163 - ... feet: flight, pursuit, victory: fields strewed with carcases left for food to dogs, and wolves, and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning and destroying. And, to set forth the valour of my own dear countrymen, I assured him, that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship; and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of all the spectators.