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Sometimes a phrenologist who had strayed into our midst would follow on with a brief phrenological seance, and nothing afforded the comrades more satisfaction than to be informed that their bumps showed undoubted criminal propensities.
My studies were certainly not of the most cheerful order, for after finishing this morbid anatomy of human hearts I read an article in the Phrenological Journal on Bouilland's "Anatomy of the Brain," which made me feel as if my brain was stuck full of pins and needles.
She proceeded to give the character of her visitor in the usual mode of phrenological examinations, after which she prophesied as follows: “You were born between Jupiter and Mars, with such stars you can never be unlucky, for although you have seen trouble, it is past. Your luck runs in threes and fives—that is, you are unlucky three years in succession, and lucky the five years following.
Wahlin, pastor of the Swedish Church, recovered what he supposed to be the stolen skull, had a cast of it taken, and placed it in the coffin in 1819. The cast which is sometimes seen in phrenological collections is obviously not Swedenborg's: it is thought to be that of a small female skull." In the latter part of the reign of George III a mausoleum was built in the Tomb House at Windsor Castle.
I waived that question, and returned to the Murdstones. 'I was aware of his being married again. Do you attend the family? I asked. 'Not regularly. I have been called in, he replied. 'Strong phrenological developments of the organ of firmness, in Mr. Murdstone and his sister, sir. I replied with such an expressive look, that Mr.
They did not look askance at such a controversial subject, having published the Fowler family's phrenological books. In addition the women of the family were suffragists. In 1855, at the instigation of her father. Miss Anthony began to preserve her press clippings. She now found them a valuable record, and she hired a young girl to paste them in six large account books.
He had been offered a bedroom, and had slept soundly till about five in the morning, when his attention was attracted by a small phrenological bust on the chimney-piece, which he took into his bed, with the intention of studying it at leisure.
There is one answer to polygamy which forever settles the question. The highest orders of animals and men are gifted by nature with an instinct prompting the union, in pairs, for life of the male and female. This instinct is located in the occipital region of the brain, and is called, in Phrenological language, Conjugality.
The mesmerizer then led him, with his eyes shut, to the front of the stage, and pointed out to the spectators the phrenological development of his head; he then touched the bump of language, and set the seeming automaton talking. But here the professor was caught in his own trap.
"Sooner or later it must involve him in its airy meshes, eh, Squills? entrap him into its fatal cerebral cell. There his fate waits him, like the ant-lion in its pit." "Too true," quoth Squills. "What a phrenological lecturer you would have made!" "Go then, my love," said my father, "and lay no blame but on this melancholy cavity of mine, where cautiousness is not!
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