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... organs as some others do upon their thirty - nine articles of faith . I am not at all surprised , therefore , at the reception Phrenology has met with from the scientific world ; for it was easy to reject the whole where there was ...
... organs as some others do upon their thirty - nine articles of faith . I am not at all surprised , therefore , at the reception Phrenology has met with from the scientific world ; for it was easy to reject the whole where there was ...
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... organ of the amative propensity : but the organ of that class of powers which might perhaps , for distinction's sake , be termed the physico - func- tional powers ; or those powers having a more imme- diate relation to the bodily ...
... organ of the amative propensity : but the organ of that class of powers which might perhaps , for distinction's sake , be termed the physico - func- tional powers ; or those powers having a more imme- diate relation to the bodily ...
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... organs on each half . It is a fact , also , that some organs are often more developed on one side than on the other , and that generally only one side is in action at a time . This is one reason for the variations which occur in the ...
... organs on each half . It is a fact , also , that some organs are often more developed on one side than on the other , and that generally only one side is in action at a time . This is one reason for the variations which occur in the ...
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... organs ; nor , considering the nature of mind , work- ing together , or evolving results in combinations , could we in reason expect that such would be the case ; but there may , nevertheless , be distinctions , - material distinctions ...
... organs ; nor , considering the nature of mind , work- ing together , or evolving results in combinations , could we in reason expect that such would be the case ; but there may , nevertheless , be distinctions , - material distinctions ...
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... organs of the cerebellum are double , though the brain is not divided in the centre as the cerebrum is . There are ... organ of one faculty ; and , in con- sequence , different physiologists have suggested what they supposed might be ...
... organs of the cerebellum are double , though the brain is not divided in the centre as the cerebrum is . There are ... organ of one faculty ; and , in con- sequence , different physiologists have suggested what they supposed might be ...
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Page 212 - And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
Page 365 - ... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees...
Page 340 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 152 - But it is manifest that Plato in his opinion of Ideas, as one that had a wit of elevation situate as upon a cliff, did descry that forms were the true object of knowledge ; but lost the real fruit of his opinion, by considering of forms as absolutely abstracted from matter, and not confined and determined by matter ; and so turning his opinion upon Theology, wherewith all his natural philosophy is infected.
Page 388 - While dancing they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external impressions through the senses, but were haunted by visions...
Page 225 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Page viii - In my opinion, profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason; and it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent of each other...
Page 178 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 239 - For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes; and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.