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Example sentences for "phrenological"

Lexicographically close words:
phrasing; phratria; phratries; phratry; phrenic; phrenologically; phrenologist; phrenologists; phrenology; phrensied
  1. Adam Waldie was the publisher of the American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, begun in November, 1838.

  2. The American Phrenological Journal was issued from No.

  3. Witness the illusion created by the sleeping Napoleon lifting the coat on his bed in humping the counterpane with perpendicular toes, an effect which was remembered in Cruikshank's Ideality (Phrenological Illustrations, 1826).

  4. Phrenological Illustrations, or an Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim," by George Cruikshank.

  5. The world had long known the principal facts which suggested phrenological inquiry, but had omitted to pursue the investigation necessary to form a correct conclusion from them.

  6. Before phrenological investigation and discovery, man's moral and intellectual nature seemed destined to perpetual mal-treatment.

  7. Of such was the widely circulated "Phrenological Manipulation of the Head of Punch," written by George Combe about 1845, in the form of an open letter.

  8. The great error of the phrenological school has been in estimating moral development by the total vertical measurement, and estimating animal development without regard to depth, which is its chief indication.

  9. Indeed, the phrenological school have positively misconceived and misstated the principles of cerebral development.

  10. From the same source he received the assurance of the correctness of his phrenological views.

  11. The phrenological manifestations, so unfortunately countenanced by Braid, continued to be exhibited by others in connection with the hypnotic state.

  12. Squills communicate articles to the 'Phrenological Journal' upon the skulls of Bushmen and wombats.

  13. Have you ever submitted your head to a phrenological examination?

  14. It is not necessary to prove the falsity of the phrenological statement.

  15. I have nothing against the grand total of my phrenological endowments.

  16. Our new Xavier belonged to what is called the mesmerico-phrenological school.

  17. The phrenological organs of the remaining lads were now subjected to similar experiments.

  18. Johnny Dear" was undoubtedly the most presentable; even more, there was an educational suggestion in its prominent, mapped-out phrenological organs.

  19. Johnny Dear" was originally a small plaster phrenological cast of a head and bust, begged from some shop window in the county town, with a body clearly constructed by Mary herself.

  20. The condition of mental science would be sad indeed if this were its best chance of being positive; for the later course of physiological observation and speculation has not tended to confirm, but to discredit, the phrenological hypothesis.

  21. The phrenological study of Mind thus supposes as its necessary preparation the whole of the Association psychology.

  22. The metaphysicians, however, have distinguished them, and in the phrenological Works their different elements are pointed out.

  23. His only published criticism, of which I am aware, was discharged at a phrenological lecturer, whose extraordinary assumptions and ad-captandum style had excited his disgust.

  24. The reader has doubtless visited the Zoo and observed one monkey gravely absorbed in a "phrenological examination" of another's head.

  25. Monkeys are hopping about all over the place, moving leisurely about the roofs and walls of the villages, or complacently examining one another's phrenological peculiarities beneath the trees.

  26. I think the superiority of the phrenological classification of the mental powers to that of other systems of psychology will be apparent from the following: Phrenological Analysis of Mental Faculties.

  27. According to the phrenological classification, the intellectual faculties are divided into three classes; viz.

  28. On his birthday he received a beautiful phrenological head, all marked with figures to the thorax and painted blue.

  29. Charles fled to his study and wept there, both his elbows on the table, sitting in an arm-chair at his bureau under the phrenological head.

  30. Fortunately a few skulls from Scottish tumuli and cists are preserved in the Museums of the Scottish Antiquaries and of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society.

  31. Phrenological Museum, brought from an ancient cemetery at Inchmore, or Columb Kill, county of Longford, Ireland; and No.

  32. The skeleton measured six feet in length, and the skull, which has been already referred to, is now in the Edinburgh Phrenological Museum.

  33. Edinburgh Phrenological Museum found on the farm of Stonelaws, East-Lothian, where a number of rude primitive cists have been exposed in the course of agricultural operations.

  34. Mr. Liddell, of Lady Glenorchy's Chapel, who intended to present it to Mr. Combe of the Phrenological Society.

  35. Scandinavian aggression, and is marked in the catalogue of the Phrenological Museum as the skull of a Dane.

  36. It forms one of a very interesting group of skulls in the Phrenological Museum.

  37. A remarkable skull preserved in the Edinburgh Phrenological Museum, and described as found in a stone coffin in a tumulus opened at Newbattle in 1782, appears to belong to this memorial mound.


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