Practical PhrenologyRussell, Shattuck, & Williams, 1836 - 336 strán (strany) |
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acquisitiveness action active adhesiveness affective faculties animals appear attention become benevolence brain causality cautiousness cerebellum cerebral organs CHAPTER character circumstances color Combe combination comparison connexion conscientiousness deficient degree destructiveness effect enable Eustachian tube eventuality examination excite exercise external senses facts feelings female firmness forehead free agency frontal frontal lobe frontal sinus functions George Combe give habits head Hence higher sentiments ideality indicated individual influence intel intellectual faculties intellectual organs internal ear judge judgment lectures lobe love of approbation Mastoid process ment mind moral natural language nerves nervous ness noticed objects observation organ large peculiar perceptive organs person Philoprogenitiveness Phrenology possessed predominance principles propensities proportion qualities readily recognised recollection reflective organs region relation remarks reverence says scull secretiveness self-esteem Sir Walter Scott Spurzheim strong superciliary ridge talents taste temperament thing thought tion truth tympanum whole
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