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Pagina 29
... colour the ground on which it rests . Great intensity of vision , therefore , is necessary to its existence . Accordingly , in it the optic nerve is increased to an enor- mous extent . Instead of forming a single membrane lin- ing only ...
... colour the ground on which it rests . Great intensity of vision , therefore , is necessary to its existence . Accordingly , in it the optic nerve is increased to an enor- mous extent . Instead of forming a single membrane lin- ing only ...
Pagina 43
... colour , and tex- ture of the brain , no sentiment can be perceived slumber- ing in its fibres , nor half - formed ideas starting from its folds . It appears to the eye only as a mass of curiously convoluted matter ; and the ...
... colour , and tex- ture of the brain , no sentiment can be perceived slumber- ing in its fibres , nor half - formed ideas starting from its folds . It appears to the eye only as a mass of curiously convoluted matter ; and the ...
Pagina 46
... colour , and there a line of grey or curve of red , were displayed : here a cineritious , there a medullary mass ; here a portion white without and grey within ; there a portion white within and grey without ; here a gland - pituitary ...
... colour , and there a line of grey or curve of red , were displayed : here a cineritious , there a medullary mass ; here a portion white without and grey within ; there a portion white within and grey without ; here a gland - pituitary ...
Pagina 57
... colour ; when dried , it is trans- parent . Corrosive sublimate and muriate of soda harden it ; alkalis dissolve it . Each fibril of a nerve is convolut- ed , and runs not in a straight line , but zig - zag , like a thread drawn from a ...
... colour ; when dried , it is trans- parent . Corrosive sublimate and muriate of soda harden it ; alkalis dissolve it . Each fibril of a nerve is convolut- ed , and runs not in a straight line , but zig - zag , like a thread drawn from a ...
Pagina 60
... colour of the ganglions differs from that of the nerves ; it is redder , which is owing to the greater number of blood- vessels : They consist of the same matter with the brain . Wherever we trace nerves of motion , we find that , be ...
... colour of the ganglions differs from that of the nerves ; it is redder , which is owing to the greater number of blood- vessels : They consist of the same matter with the brain . Wherever we trace nerves of motion , we find that , be ...
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Acquisitiveness action activity appears arises attention beauty Benevolence betwixt brain bust Causality cause Cautiousness cerebellum character circumstances colours Combativeness combination conceive conceptions Conscientiousness constitution deficient degree Destructiveness discover disease dispositions distinguished doctrine Dr SPURZHEIM dura mater Edinburgh Review effect emotion endowment equal excited existence fact facul feeling forehead frontal bone frontal sinus functions gives gratification head hence human Ideality ideas impression indivi individual insanity instance instinctive intellectual faculties language largely developed Love of Approbation lower animals manifestations manner medulla oblongata ment metaphysicians mind moral sentiments motion nature neral nerves ness never observed organ is large parietal bones particular perceive perception persons phenomena philosophers philosophy of mind Phrenological Society Phrenology physiologists possess predominates present primitive principle produce propensity proportion qualities racter recollection reflection regard remarkable says Secretiveness Self-Esteem sensation sense shew situated skull supposed talent taste tendency tion tiveness Veneration
Populaire passages
Pagina 462 - 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...
Pagina 422 - 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.
Pagina 434 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
Pagina 322 - Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
Pagina 540 - 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.
Pagina 304 - 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.
Pagina 322 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Pagina 422 - But ev'ry eye was fixed on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfixed as those: 10 Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
Pagina 286 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Pagina 424 - I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it ? Did not goodwife 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...