The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Bind 95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 |
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... heads of public speakers , and prognosticates happily of the BarHow Phrenology might improve Poetry , and highly ... head in its usual state , but , in the morning , when I took off my night - cap , and put up my hand to spread and ...
... heads of public speakers , and prognosticates happily of the BarHow Phrenology might improve Poetry , and highly ... head in its usual state , but , in the morning , when I took off my night - cap , and put up my hand to spread and ...
Side 2
... head , I proudly regard myself , in this state of capillary destitution , as peculiarly favoured with the most enviable and felicitous appliances , for the nurture and cultivation of Phrenological science . Perhaps , Sir , I need ...
... head , I proudly regard myself , in this state of capillary destitution , as peculiarly favoured with the most enviable and felicitous appliances , for the nurture and cultivation of Phrenological science . Perhaps , Sir , I need ...
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... head , in all that seems essential , bears a most striking resemblance to that of the English sage . There is , indeed , a slight difference , he allows , over the left ear , which somewhat assimilates him to Tycho - Brache , or ...
... head , in all that seems essential , bears a most striking resemblance to that of the English sage . There is , indeed , a slight difference , he allows , over the left ear , which somewhat assimilates him to Tycho - Brache , or ...
Side 5
... head tells me I have an exceeding mathematical genius ; the region of pure intellect , also , is admirably developed ; and the protuberance of language , in its richness , swells nearly into deformity . Can- dour , however , obliges me ...
... head tells me I have an exceeding mathematical genius ; the region of pure intellect , also , is admirably developed ; and the protuberance of language , in its richness , swells nearly into deformity . Can- dour , however , obliges me ...
Side 6
... head . My consternation and bewilderment , however , were extreme , when I felt , so to speak , no beating of the musical pulse , no organ of tune , " total eclipse , " - Combe and Spurzheim roll- ing disastrously on the descendant , at ...
... head . My consternation and bewilderment , however , were extreme , when I felt , so to speak , no beating of the musical pulse , no organ of tune , " total eclipse , " - Combe and Spurzheim roll- ing disastrously on the descendant , at ...
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Side 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Side 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Side 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Side 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Side 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Side 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Side 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Side 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Side 548 - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you.
Side 416 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o