A New System of PhrenologyOliver G. Steele, 1839 - 320 pages |
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Acquisitiveness action Alimentiveness animals anterior column appetite Approbativeness arterial blood bodily body bones brain called carniverous carnivora Causality cause Cautiousness cerebellum cerebrum Chemicality Color column Combe combined Conscientiousness constitution convey convolution deficient degree depends Destructiveness developed effect enables excited existence explains external faculty feeling forehead frequently frontal sinus functions Gall Genus George Combe gives gratify head hemisphere herbiverous history of animals human ideas Imitativeness impressions Individuality intellectual Ipseals kind Language lobe lower manifest manner medulla oblongata ment mind muscles muscular muscular system nature nerves nervous ness nourishment objects observed organ pain peculiar pensities perceive perception perfect persons phrenology Playfulness Pneumativeness possess posterior posterior column powers predominate principle produces propen propensity Range remarkable resemble respiration Rodentia sensation sense sentiment skull smell Socials spinal cord Spurzheim stomach talent taste temperament things tion tiveness venous Voltaire
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Page 111 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — That is the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 100 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 112 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 221 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seemed fair in all the world, seemed now Mean ; or in her summed up, in her contained, And in her looks, which from that time infused Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her air inspired The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Page 223 - Full fain it would delay me! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, His little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen!
Page 84 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 230 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 166 - The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless, A lump of death - a chaos of hard clay.
Page 165 - I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 177 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.