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... Faculties Phrenologi- cally explained DISCUSSION : " Have the Effects resulting from the Institution of Chivalry been more Beneficial or Injurious ? " . On the Public Spirit of the British and Roman People Winter ; ; an Ode On the ...
... Faculties Phrenologi- cally explained DISCUSSION : " Have the Effects resulting from the Institution of Chivalry been more Beneficial or Injurious ? " . On the Public Spirit of the British and Roman People Winter ; ; an Ode On the ...
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... Faculties Phrenologi- cally explained 132 DISCUSSION : " Have the Effects resulting from the Institution of Chivalry been more Beneficial or Injurious ? " = 599498858 88 888 8 1 17 27 43 46 ib . 52 56 57 59 62 65 85 86 87 136 On the ...
... Faculties Phrenologi- cally explained 132 DISCUSSION : " Have the Effects resulting from the Institution of Chivalry been more Beneficial or Injurious ? " = 599498858 88 888 8 1 17 27 43 46 ib . 52 56 57 59 62 65 85 86 87 136 On the ...
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... faculties of men , and points out the march of intellect ; if we cannot contemplate the sublime operations of human skill and industry , without being anxious to ascertain by what mind they were conceived , and by what hand they were ...
... faculties of men , and points out the march of intellect ; if we cannot contemplate the sublime operations of human skill and industry , without being anxious to ascertain by what mind they were conceived , and by what hand they were ...
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... faculties , and applied only to the sublimest exerters of intel- lectual power . It This leads at once to the most accurate definition of the term . It is as follows : The ruling power born in the nature , and identical with the essence ...
... faculties , and applied only to the sublimest exerters of intel- lectual power . It This leads at once to the most accurate definition of the term . It is as follows : The ruling power born in the nature , and identical with the essence ...
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... faculties of the soul , hath ingenious and presumptuous sophistry endeavoured to create by accident , and mould by education . It has appropriated to itself all the gifts of Heaven , and claimed the power of exerting whatever talent it ...
... faculties of the soul , hath ingenious and presumptuous sophistry endeavoured to create by accident , and mould by education . It has appropriated to itself all the gifts of Heaven , and claimed the power of exerting whatever talent it ...
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Page 13 - And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Page 355 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 163 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Page 414 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
Page 41 - But the Imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; — • the Soul may fall away from it, not being able to sustain its grandeur ; but, if once felt and acknowledged, by no act of any other faculty of the mind can it be relaxed, impaired, or diminished. — Fancy is given to quicken and to beguile the temporal part of our nature, Imagination to incite and to support the eternal.
Page 431 - Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences ; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Page 28 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 287 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 49 - But because the spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in this body without some recreating intermission of labour and serious things, it were happy for the commonwealth...
Page 431 - The pupils at his command took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame ; and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded...