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Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1833
 

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Página 222 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 14 - Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in general, and of the . Brain in particular ; and indicating the Dispositions and .Manifestations of the Mind.
Página 68 - Her memory was capacious, and stored with a copious stock of ideas. Unexpectedly, and without any forewarning, she fell into a profound sleep, which continued several hours beyond the ordinary term. On waking she was discovered to have lost every trait of acquired knowledge. Her memory was tabula rasa. All vestiges both of \ words and things were obliterated and gone. It was found necessary for her to learn everything again.
Página 69 - The former condition of her existence, she now calls the Old State, and the latter the New State ; and she is as unconscious of her double character as two distinct persons are of their respective natures. For example, in her old state, she possesses all her original knowledge ; in her new state only what she acquired since.
Página 259 - ... and thus gradually extends his yet very circumscribed field of observation. It was in one of these excursions of discovery that his father observed him with horror, creeping on his hands and knees along a narrow wooden bridge which crossed the river, at a point where the stream is deep and rapid. He was immediately arrested in his progress...
Página 299 - It is this also which in excess induces men to personify everything of which they speak, whether mere qualities or abstract ideas, or even phenomena, such as motion, life, the passions, &c. Its organ is situated behind the root...
Página 12 - Gall had the greatest difficulty in competing, were those who learned by heart with great facility ; and such individuals frequently gained from him by their repetitions, the places which he had obtained by the merit of his original compositions.
Página 69 - Her memory was tabula rasa ; all vestiges, both of words and things, were obliterated and gone. It was found necessary for her to learn everything again. She even acquired, by new efforts, the art of spelling, reading, writing, and calculating, and gradually became acquainted with the persons and objects around, like a being for the first time brought into the world. In these exercises she made considerable proficiency. But, after a few months, another fit of somnolency invaded her. On rousing from...
Página 252 - This seemed not only to excite his wonder, but to afford him exquisite delight ; and his father and his sister, who were present, remarked that they had never seen him so much interested on any former occasion. While the instrument continued to play he kept it closely between his teeth, and when the airs were ended, he continued to hold the box to his mouth, and to examine it minutely with his fingers, expressing by his gestures and by his countenance great curiosity.
Página 70 - ... her mouth with the bed-clothes, and otherwise overpowered a vigorous resistance which was made by her, even during the influence of her complaint. Next day she had not the slightest recollection even of that transaction, nor did any person interested in her welfare know of it for several days, till she was in one of her paroxysms, when she related the whole facts to her mother. Next Sunday she was taken to the church by her mistress while the paroxysm was on her.

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