 | 1829 - 298 pages
...na certain bust, what was the predominant >ropensity or faculty of the individual. He pronounced the original must be a great poet. His attention was directed...mathematician : and the second that of Sir Walter Scott! Talent, the phrenologist assorts, is relating with the ample developement of the cerebral mass. Mr.... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...certain bust, what was the predominant propensity or faculty of the individual. He pronounced that the original must be a great poet. His attention was directed...mathematician ; and the second, that of Sir Walter Scott. Talent, the phrenologist asserts, is proportional to the development of the cerebral mass. Mr. Chantrey... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...certain bust, what was the predominant propensity or faculty of the individual. He pronounced that the original must be a great poet. His attention was directed...mathematician ; and the second, that of Sir Walter Scott Talent, the phrenologist asserts, is proportional to the development of the cerebral mass. Mr. Cbantrey... | |
 | John Read (maker to the army.) - 1829 - 594 pages
...a certain bust, what was the predominant propensity or faculty of the individual. He pronounced the original must be a great poet. His attention was directed...mathematician ; and the second that of Sir Walter Scott! Mr. Chantrey also exhihited to Dr. Gall drawings of numerous heads. The cranioscopist selected one,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 816 pages
...a certain bust, what was the predominant propensity or faculty of the individual. He pronounced the original must be a great poet. His attention was directed to a second bust ; he declared the latter to be a great mathematician. The first was the bust of Troughton, the eminent mathematician; and the second... | |
 | Nathan Lewis Rice - Mesmerism - 1849 - 334 pages
...certain bust, what was the predominant propensity or faculty of the individual? He pronounced that the original must be a great poet. His attention was directed...the bust of TROUGH-TON, the eminent mathematician ; the second, that of Sir Walter Scott ! I will add the testimony of one of the most eminent physiologists... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1856 - 768 pages
...certain bust, what was the predominant propensity, or faculty of the individual. He pronounced the original must be a great poet. His attention was directed...mathematician : the first was the bust of Troughton, and the second that of Sir Walter Scott !" This kind of hasty judgment from manifestly inadequte data... | |
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Gal! was requested to say, from the organs exhibited in a certain bust, what was the predominant propensity, or faculty of the individual. He pronounced the original must be a great poet. His attention was directed to a second bust. He declared the latter... 