Lectures on Phrenology: Delivered Before the Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement of the City of AlbanyOliver Steele, and Hoffman & White; Printed by Hoffman & White, 1834 - 252 páginas |
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Acquisitiveness action affection agency animal world ascer Benevolence bestowed brain Causality cere cerebellum cerebrum character Coloring Combativeness combined with large consequence constitute cranium culty dependent derangement Destructiveness direction ence energy essential exercise exhibition existence extent external objects fact facul faculties that form faculty is situated feeling form ideas frontal frontal bone frontal sinus furnish ganglions gives gratification harmony head Hence higher sentiments human impulse indicated individual influence instance intellect kind knowing faculties language largely developed less located Love of Approbation lower manifestations medulla oblongata medulla spinalis ment mind modes of activity monomania moral move under ground nature neral nerves observation operation originally parietal bones particular pathognomy pensities perceive perceptive and knowing perfect Phrenology possessor predominating productive propen propensities and sentiments race reason reflecting faculties reflective powers relations result Self-esteem species spinal marrow Spurzheim strength strong superadditions temperament tendency things tion truth Veneration
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Página 125 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 187 - Coloring, being over-excited, began to occasion its specific and fantastical illusions. Bright spots, like stars on a black ground, filled the room in the dark, and even in daylight ; and sudden and sometimes gradual illumination of the room during the nis^ht often took place, so that the furniture in it became visible.
Página 188 - ... a book, a footstool, a work-box, would increase to twenty, or fifty, sometimes without order or arrangement, and at other times piled regularly one above another. Such objects deluded her in another way, by increasing in size, as she looked at them, to the most amazing excess — again resuming their natural size — less than which they never seemed to become — and again swelling out. Locality, overexcited, gave her the illusion of objects, which she had been accustomed to regard as fixed,...
Página 186 - She was early subject to such illusions occasionally, and the first she remembers was that of a carpet spread out in the air, which descended near her, and vanished away. " After an interval of some years, she began to see human figures in her room as she lay wide awake in bed, even in the daylight of the morning. These figures were whitish, or rather grey and transparent like cobweb, and generally above the size of life. At this time she had acute...
Página 189 - ... with Nicolai — from whole figures to parts of figures, faces, and half faces, and limbs — sometimes of inordinate size and dreadful deformity. One instance of illusive disorder which she mentioned is curious, and has the farther effect of exhibiting what cannot be put in terms, except those of the derangement of the just perception of gravitation or equilibrium. (Weight.) One night, as she sat in her bed-room, and was about to go to bed, a stream of spectres, persons...
Página 189 - ... limbs, in the most shocking confusion, seemed to her to pour into her room from the window, in the manner of a cascade ! Although the cascade continued apparently in rapid descending motion, there was no accumulation of figures in the room, the supply unaccountably vanishing after having formed the cascade. Colossal figures are her frequent visitors. (Size.) '• Real but inanimate objects have assumed to her the form of animals ; and she has often attempted to lift articles from the ground,...
Página 189 - She sometimes saw friends on the street, who proved phantoms when she approached to speak to them ; and instances occurred where, from not having thus satisfied herself of the illusion, she affirmed to such friends that she had seen them in certain places, at certain times, when they proved to her the clearest alibi. The confusion of her spectral forms now distressed her. (Order affected.) The oppression and perplexity...
Página 138 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap; And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red, began to turn...
Página 189 - ... faces, limbs, in the most shocking confusion, seemed to her to pour into her room from the window, in the manner of a cascade ! Although the cascade continued apparently in rapid descending motion, there was no accumulation of figures in the room, the supply unaccountably vanishing after having formed the cascade. Colossal figures are her frequent visitors.
Página 187 - ... in it became visible. Innumerable balls of fire seemed one day to pour like a torrent out of one of the rooms of the house down the staircase. On one occasion, the pain between the eyes, and along the lower ridge of the brow, struck her suddenly with great violence, — when, instantly, the room filled with stars and bright spots. On attempting, on that occasion, to go to bed, she said she was conscious of an inability to balance...