There is often something maternal even in a girlish love, and Mary's hard experience had wrought her nature to an impressibility very different from that hard slight thing which we call girlishness.
But perhaps Dodo, if she were really bordering on such an extravagance, might be turned away from it: experience had often shown that her impressibility might be calculated on.
With his customary impressibility by the influences around him, he begun to take in the circumstances, and to understand them by more subtile tokens than he could well explain to himself.
A very simple test of impressibility consists in passing the ends of the fingers over the palm of the hand of the subject, within one or more inches, and ascertaining whether he can recognize its passage by any impression.
But impressibility does not imply disease, although it may make the system more accessible to slight morbific agencies.
Superior impressibilityis then the result of a superior development of the organs which feel the various impressions.
Impressibility in its general sense, or the power of being affected by external agents, is proportional to the development of life.
Mental and nervous impressibility being dependent upon these organs, it follows that a large development of the front lobe favors Impressibility, and that the occipital organs tend to diminish it.
A moderate degree of impressibility which is almost universal in the South, belongs to more than half in the North.
Mental impressibility is dependent upon intellectual organs, which feel the influences of mind.
Impressibility lies in a group of organs which sustain it, and may be expected to accompany its development.
As time goes on impressibility seems first of all to be lost, so that it becomes harder and harder to learn new things, to remember new faces, new names.
In childhoodimpressibility is high, but until the age or four or five the duration of impression is low, and likewise the power of voluntary recall.
As the effects of the poison wear off, which even in favorable cases takes months, the impressibility returns but never reaches normality again.
Thus where the laws and conditions of impressibility are understood, it is not anomalous that so few are impressed, but this fact confirms the theory of sensitiveness.
It may have all degrees of acuteness, fromimpressibility scarcely distinguishable from the individual's own thoughts, to the purest independent clairvoyance.
Smalley, as told by him, is a fine illustration of impressibility in sleep.
Mrs. Denton, an extremely sensitive person, relates an experience which shows how exactly similar the impressibility which may be called normal in contradistinction to that induced by disease.
That he was a man of genius appears unmistakably in his impressibilityby the deeper meaning of the epoch in which he lived.
Spurzheim failed, but covered the ground incorrectly, and it was many years after I discovered cerebral impressibilitybefore I attained a satisfactory view of the psychology of this region.
Its close connection with the region of impressibility called Somnolence explains its supreme control over our emotions.
This is seen in grief and fear, which diminish, while hope and joy increase the impressibility of this tissue.
The power of generating heat is diminished, and the impressibility to cold is increased, on those portions of the skin usually clothed.
The early anecdotes give us the poetic impressibility and the enduring muscular fibre, that make themselves felt through the lively, facile nature.
In appearance, frivolous; with all the light charm of the world, yet with that impressibility to great things, according to the law which makes the best of M.
The author has long been known as a distinguished Professor of Physiology, whose name is identified with one of the most remarkable discoveries of the age, the impressibility of the brain.
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