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... extremely prominent , and the facial angle acute ; while their foreheads are in fact largely developed , and their intellectual faculties powerful , although , by Camper's rule , they ought to be inferior to many stupid Europeans ...
... extremely prominent , and the facial angle acute ; while their foreheads are in fact largely developed , and their intellectual faculties powerful , although , by Camper's rule , they ought to be inferior to many stupid Europeans ...
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... extremely thin membrane , named the tunica arach- noidea , on account of its extreme tenuity , resembling a spider's web . It covers the surface of the brain uniformly without passing into its folds or cavities . It secretes matter , to ...
... extremely thin membrane , named the tunica arach- noidea , on account of its extreme tenuity , resembling a spider's web . It covers the surface of the brain uniformly without passing into its folds or cavities . It secretes matter , to ...
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... extremely shallow ; in other words , the mass is not large , and the intellectual manifestations will be proportionately feeble . The posterior lobe is devoted chiefly to the animal propensities . In the brain its size is easily ...
... extremely shallow ; in other words , the mass is not large , and the intellectual manifestations will be proportionately feeble . The posterior lobe is devoted chiefly to the animal propensities . In the brain its size is easily ...
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... extremely difficult to give a satisfactory answer to this inquiry . Looking at the facts presented to us by observation , the most obvious inference seems to be , that the mind consists of an aggregate of powers , and that one of them ...
... extremely difficult to give a satisfactory answer to this inquiry . Looking at the facts presented to us by observation , the most obvious inference seems to be , that the mind consists of an aggregate of powers , and that one of them ...
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George Combe. died of consumption . In her , also , this organ was extremely developed ; and during her life she had been remarkable for her love of children . In the Lunatic Hospital at Amsterdam , Drs . Gall and Spurzheim saw a female ...
George Combe. died of consumption . In her , also , this organ was extremely developed ; and during her life she had been remarkable for her love of children . In the Lunatic Hospital at Amsterdam , Drs . Gall and Spurzheim saw a female ...
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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.
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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.