A system of phrenology.

  • George Combe
Date:
1835
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    Tact, conferred by Secretiveness, 181. Tailors, skilful, have large Construc- tive!] ess, 210. Talents, natural diversity of, 47,62. Tasso's Ideality very large, 305. Be- lieved that he saw and conversed with spirits, 291. Portrait of, showing Ideality andWonder large, 294. His Locality large, 390. Taste, sense of, 349. correct, produced by Love of Approbation and Ideality, 309. in coloring, 387. analysis of 521. How suscep- tible of cultivation, 525. Standard of, ib Teachers, qualifications of success- ful, 403,405. Effects of smallness of heads of, 530. Temperaments indicate to a certain extent the constitutional qualities of the brain, 29, 532. Description and supposed origin of the differ- ent, ib. Modify the effects of Size, ib. Are seldom found pure, 94. Dr. Thomas' theory of, ib. Their effects on internal activity of the faculties, 470. Nervous and san- guine, conduce to refinement, 524. Their effects on the texture of the skull, 582. Temporal muscles, not the cause of narrow heads, 205. Present a difficulty in observing the size of the organs of Constructiveness and Acquisitiveness, ib. Tennant, Mr. poet, evinces the sen- timent of Wonder, 298. His or- gan of Coloring large, 387; and that of Locality deficient, 390. Tentorium, what, 70, 109. Terms used to denote the gradations of size in different cerebral organs, 88. Theft prompted by Secretiveness and Acquisitiveness, 186,194,195, 199. Thomas, Dr. his theory of the tem- peraments, 94. Thomson's Seasons verbose, 424. Thoracic temperament, 94. Thurtell, John, murderer, 270. His large head, 530. Tiberius, his Benevolence small, 249. Tillotson, an observer of human na- tive, 38. Tune, one of the intellectual faculties, 407. Its function, ib. Essential to music and versification, ib. Mr. Simpson on, ib. Necessary to accurate dancers, 407. power of conceiving, 407, 408. May be marked to the eye, 407. Lord Karnes on, 438. Titles, rank and power, respect for, produced by Veneration, 264. Tone of voice, relation between it and cerebral developement, 412. Tories have generally larger organs of Veneration than Whigs, 266. Touch or Feeling, sense of, 348. Tragedy, pleasure arising from see- ing a mournful, whence, 460, 461. Tragic actors, Ideality necessary to, 310. Trajan's Benevolence large, 249. Trapbois, in the novel, a personifi- cation of Acquisitiveness, 193. Travellers, eminent, their large Lo- cality, 390. Truth, sentiment of, arises from Con- scientiousness, 277. Tucker, Mr. Robert, case of inabili- ty to distinguish colors, 375. Tulpius on the structure of the brain, 48. Time, organ of, history of its disco- very, 409. Its appearance and form, 410. Large in musicians,
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