Phrenology Vindicated, and Antiphrenology UnmaskedSamuel Colman, 1838 - 156 psl. |
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... head of his antiphre- nological career ; and , as was to be expected , that taint has more or less polluted the entire stream . From the year 1826 until the summer of 1837 , eleven long years , it was my fortune , good or bad as the ...
... head of his antiphre- nological career ; and , as was to be expected , that taint has more or less polluted the entire stream . From the year 1826 until the summer of 1837 , eleven long years , it was my fortune , good or bad as the ...
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... head , that it would have been well for the reputation and standing of the Professor , had no Phrenologist ever opened his pamphlet . But to proceed to an analysis of his " Two Lectures ; " and establish against them the truth of the ...
... head , that it would have been well for the reputation and standing of the Professor , had no Phrenologist ever opened his pamphlet . But to proceed to an analysis of his " Two Lectures ; " and establish against them the truth of the ...
18 psl.
... head under a bramble , to escape from the hunter , its body and limbs remain- ing exposed . Still however it is an effort , and shows at once the studied trickery , and the puerile weakness of its author . He would have concealed his ...
... head under a bramble , to escape from the hunter , its body and limbs remain- ing exposed . Still however it is an effort , and shows at once the studied trickery , and the puerile weakness of its author . He would have concealed his ...
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... head . By far the greater portion of it is furnished to him by Gall and Spurzheim themselves . They have frankly referred to all writers of distinction , who , previously to themselves , had pronounced the brain to be a multiplex organ ...
... head . By far the greater portion of it is furnished to him by Gall and Spurzheim themselves . They have frankly referred to all writers of distinction , who , previously to themselves , had pronounced the brain to be a multiplex organ ...
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... head as the standard of perfection , and contends that it is indicative of superior intellect . " In the truth of the underscored clause of the sentence I have no confidence . In plainer terms , I deem it un- founded . I do not believe ...
... head as the standard of perfection , and contends that it is indicative of superior intellect . " In the truth of the underscored clause of the sentence I have no confidence . In plainer terms , I deem it un- founded . I do not believe ...
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