Colloquies: Imaginary Conversations Between a Phrenologist and the Shade of Dugald StewartParbury & Company, 1838 - 336 pages |
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... comparatively devoid of interest , and so involved in abstrusities as this science ; and hence we can draw no inference from the scepticism of men who are attracted too much by other pursuits to give this subject due consideration ...
... comparatively devoid of interest , and so involved in abstrusities as this science ; and hence we can draw no inference from the scepticism of men who are attracted too much by other pursuits to give this subject due consideration ...
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... comparatively un- trodden land . In its general features there was some- thing that attracted him . By degrees his reason and sagacity were fed , his enthusiasm and ardour enlivened and increased . The deeper he penetrated the more trea ...
... comparatively un- trodden land . In its general features there was some- thing that attracted him . By degrees his reason and sagacity were fed , his enthusiasm and ardour enlivened and increased . The deeper he penetrated the more trea ...
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... comparatively barren ? You leave almost untouched whatever we have gathered into our garner . Though you have had free access , you deign not to enter , as though in the qualities of the food it con- tains , there was something ...
... comparatively barren ? You leave almost untouched whatever we have gathered into our garner . Though you have had free access , you deign not to enter , as though in the qualities of the food it con- tains , there was something ...
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... Kaimes , Descartes , Hart- ley , Priestley , Reid , Brown , Beattie , and a host of others in their line of mentalism , there stood Gall and Spurz- heim , with their few and comparatively unknown disci- ples 48 COLLOQUY III .
... Kaimes , Descartes , Hart- ley , Priestley , Reid , Brown , Beattie , and a host of others in their line of mentalism , there stood Gall and Spurz- heim , with their few and comparatively unknown disci- ples 48 COLLOQUY III .
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... comparatively unknown disci- ples . It is true the former were the promulgators of theories long established ; while the latter , apparent inno- vators of fixed doctrines , constituted a new sect , whose object has been to break down ...
... comparatively unknown disci- ples . It is true the former were the promulgators of theories long established ; while the latter , apparent inno- vators of fixed doctrines , constituted a new sect , whose object has been to break down ...
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Page 125 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 145 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 16 - But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; " and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
Page 25 - O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 245 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 88 - The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in general, and of the Brain in particular...
Page 312 - The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life in his imagination, by the help of words, than by an actual survey of the scene which they describe. In this case, the poet seems to get the better of nature : he...
Page 323 - There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue blow : To plant, to watch, to water there — This be our duty, be our care...
Page 149 - The forms with which He sprinkles all the earth. Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad, majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
Page 245 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.