Buchanan's Journal of Man, Volume 5J.R. Buchanan, 1855 - Phrenology |
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... experiments of an interesting kind were performed , but not having sufficient leisure to give the subject a close investigation , we de- sired another and private interview at our residence . It took place yes . terday morning according ...
... experiments of an interesting kind were performed , but not having sufficient leisure to give the subject a close investigation , we de- sired another and private interview at our residence . It took place yes . terday morning according ...
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swered questions just as freely during the experiments as afterwards . She seemed susceptible of all the feelings ... experiments with her in a dark closet , which our space forbids to relate . We shall attempt no solution of the ...
swered questions just as freely during the experiments as afterwards . She seemed susceptible of all the feelings ... experiments with her in a dark closet , which our space forbids to relate . We shall attempt no solution of the ...
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... experiments the genuine actions and conduct of a sincere child of her years and opportunities . We subjected her to a long and searching ordeal - many of the tests being entirely new and unex- pected . The nature of the human mind is ...
... experiments the genuine actions and conduct of a sincere child of her years and opportunities . We subjected her to a long and searching ordeal - many of the tests being entirely new and unex- pected . The nature of the human mind is ...
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... experiments in psychometry , or reading charac- ter from the autographs of persons living or dead . How a person should divine the fact that a certain writer is dead , while the autograph is sealed up and unseen by the person holding it ...
... experiments in psychometry , or reading charac- ter from the autographs of persons living or dead . How a person should divine the fact that a certain writer is dead , while the autograph is sealed up and unseen by the person holding it ...
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... experiments prove this very clearly . The mind of the person who receives the impression of the letter , acts on the thought in the words of the letter , and either absorbs it or produces its resemblance by correspondence . The name of ...
... experiments prove this very clearly . The mind of the person who receives the impression of the letter , acts on the thought in the words of the letter , and either absorbs it or produces its resemblance by correspondence . The name of ...
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Page 109 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched : 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 156 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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Page 293 - They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust. Our frigate takes fire, The other asks if we demand quarter? If our colors are struck and the fighting done? Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain, We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
Page 327 - ... having been educated in, or at any time having made profession of, the Christian religion within this realm, shall, by writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking, deny any one of the persons of the Holy Trinity to be God, or...
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Page 112 - Greyheaded old men, whose idiotic faces had hardened into a settled leer of mendicancy, and women filthier and more frightful than the harpies, who at the jingle of a coin on the pavement swarmed in myriads from unseen places ; struggling, screaming, shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous and unclean animals.