| 单词 | phrenologist |
| 例句 | Many corporations required prospective employees to submit to phrenological examinations as a condition of employment, and many couples contemplating marriage sought the advice of phrenologists. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “And such a skinflint a penny would freeze to your fist before you’d spend it,” the phrenologist snapped. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z On their second day, a withered phrenologist gives a presentation to the entire student body. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Well, phrenologists claim we can identify someone’s character and racial derivation by measuring the skull.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A local phrenologist was in one corner measuring a girl’s skull and preparing to read her character from his findings. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to offend any of my phrenologist customers. D.C. optician says when it comes to glasses defining a look, seeing is believing 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z One day, he stays in to enjoy the latest bestseller, Jane Webb’s “The Mummy”; on another, a phrenologist reads Pückler’s character by palpating his skull. ‘Letters of a Dead Man’: A travel guide like no other 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Pathologists examined the role of the brain’s two hemispheres in patients with mental illness; phrenologists tried to map mental faculties onto different areas. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z But the idea seemed a nonstarter, about as feasible and relevant as becoming a phrenologist or pneumatic-tube repairman. Cultural Studies: The Glee Generation 2010-06-11T19:20:00Z Mr. Colicchio named his restaurant for two phrenologists who practiced their pseudoscience in the building. Tom Colicchio Opens Fowler & Wells at the Beekman Hotel 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “The face of the Little Dancer undeniably has some of the features identified by phrenologists and medical anatomists of the day as typically criminal,” Laurens notes. Camille Laurens’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” Is a Fascinating Hybrid, and Obsessed with Obsession 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The number of homeopaths, phrenologists, mesmerists, and botanic healers sharply declined in the early twentieth century, but osteopaths, chiropractors, and many other kinds of healers made up for the retreat of older systems. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z He photographed folk art, too, like roadside mailboxes attached to wooden Uncle Sams and ads for ice cream stands and a phrenologist who “reads your head like an open book.” Antiques: Peter Sekaer and the Other America 2010-06-03T22:10:00Z Some suspect it was taken for study by phrenologists, who were taken seriously at the time. The listicle perfected: Henri Lefebvre's 'The Missing Pieces' 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Dreams were part of Kroc’s DNA and, according to at least one prophetic phrenologist, food was too. One fast food fanatic’s quest to make his chicken chain the next McDonald’s 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z To call the astringent platform proposed this week by the Republican National Committee obtusely retrograde would be unfair to geocentrics, alchemists and phrenologists. As a Gay Republican, I Cannot Defend the GOP Platform 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z After we hung up, I found myself thinking about what neurologists call “positive expectancy” and what the phrenologists called hope. Zap Your Brain 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z In another image, a gigantic dream cloud above a sleeping cat is divided into so many compartments that it resembles a phrenologist’s map of the brain. An Artist with Amnesia 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The phrenologist has been identified as J De Ville, whose consulting rooms were in the Strand in London. Buttock cupping and other health 'cures' 2014-01-21T02:03:31Z The phrenologist detected “considerable mental vigor,” Professor Coase wrote, and recommended that he work in banking or accounting and raise poultry as a hobby. Ronald H. Coase, Nobel-Winning Economist, Dies at 102 2013-09-03T14:15:35Z On the other side, we reporters straining like phrenologists to divine meaning from the back of Mr. Bulger’s head. This Land: In Bulger Trial, Old Partners Meet, on Opposite Sides 2013-07-20T03:23:18Z Its face wore a vacant yet weary expression, and its cranium was mapped with what phrenologists had considered to be the most basic human propensities: Wonder, Parental Love, Calculation, Secretiveness. Zap Your Brain 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z In the 1820s-1840s, when phrenology was all the rage, employers often demanded a character reference from a local phrenologist to check whether you'd be a good employee or a potential criminal. Can Googling be racist? 2013-02-05T13:00:51Z Etching by George Cruikshank showing a phrenologist in his consulting room. Buttock cupping and other health 'cures' 2014-01-21T02:03:31Z Previous physiological psychologists, including phrenologists, had generally shrunk from the extreme to which their opponents had said they were committed. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The phrenologists already knew that hope was situated in the prefrontal cortex: “in front of conscientiousness, and behind marvelousness, being elongated in the direction of the ears.” Zap Your Brain 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z The bump was there which contains his present greatness, and the phrenologist took upon himself the risk of his education in the arts. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Combe and other phrenologists are of opinion, that with this predominance a deficient development of hope and a large destructiveness must be conjoined. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Practicing phrenologists have repeatedly been invited to submit one bit of objective evidence for their pretensions, or to submit themselves to tests under controlled conditions. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Among the people they met in the autumn of 1844 was Professor Fowler, the phrenologist. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The influence in such cases must, however, be rather ascribed to the fact that the magnetizers were also phrenologists, than to the presumed organs themselves. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z A phrenologist, knowing that although "Murder had no tongue, it could speak with most miraculous organ," felt the devoted head, but was none the wiser. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z But he insisted, and finally I consented to go with him to Bridges, then the most famous phrenologist in Liverpool or in the west of England. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z Mr. Laurence Hutton has had for many years this death-mask which was formerly in the establishment of Fowler and Wells, the phrenologists, and probably used by George Combe in his lectures. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Amongst them was the "h"-less phrenologist, whose insight into character apparently satisfied the parents of any child whose head he selected to examine. Mr. Punch at the Seaside 2011-08-24T02:00:23.487Z Remember that I do not know him; I am speaking as a phrenologist; I have never been introduced to him. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z A phrenologist might possibly discern in them, the overgrown diseased developments of the intellectual organs residing in that part of the cranium. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z The phrenologist placed his hands on my head and exclaimed: "Jehu, what a head!" My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z A phrenologist would say that it was the characteristic of every woman's head. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z As the phrenologist proceeded from one statement to another, delineating the man's character, the congregation first smiled, and then burst into laughter. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z The proof of the demonstration which the phrenologist makes is, in most cases, as superficial as the demonstration itself. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z I sometimes wonder why we Americans are so apt to show, in our conduct and remarks, an undue preponderance of what the phrenologists term love of approbation. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z So I went to London, and there consulted a still more famous phrenologist, the octogenarian Donovan. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z But it—the head—is of a purely classical form, having none of those bumps and extravagant protuberances, which phrenologists delight in. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Grace had made the change, but the old, rough exterior was not worn off, and the phrenologist had judged from the appearance. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z But one can by no means class the genuine natural philosopher and the phrenologist and physiognomist together. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z Here is a phrenologist, with a large figure of a human head mapped into regions, inviting Chinese bumpkins to submit to him their bumps. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z I have mentioned that the phrenologist Bridges said, in England, some years before this, that I should become either a great reformer or a great pirate. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z "Not at all, I am a phrenologist; if you will allow me the very great privilege, I shall read your character to you in some quiet hour." A Romance of Toronto A Novel 2011-04-23T02:00:04.677Z A certain phrenologist was giving a public exhibition showing the science of phrenology. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z The false conclusions have been carefully put out of sight; and yet sufficient of them have come to the daylight to render the phrenologists ridiculous. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z The phrenologist compares developement of brain with manifestation of mental power, and by its classification of organs arranges those instruments through which the mind manifests its power during life. Christian Phrenology A Guide to Self-Knowledge 2011-04-03T02:00:15.543Z I one day told a man to take a skull, which he had found, to the phrenologist, and that he would get a good price for it. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z The phrenologist claims that he can read the mental and moral traits of a person from the bumps or prominences of the skull. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z His imagination gets the better of his reasoning, and his "organ of wonder," to speak in the manner of phrenologists, is over-developed. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z The phrenologist and the vegetarian health specialist were regarding him with amazement, the jam and pickle manufacturer's wife was evidently deeply shocked. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z It's a little like the sort of thing phrenologists give people," he said, "but I think it's very flattering. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z "Murder! murder! murder!" roared the phrenologist as he rolled on the floor among the audience. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z In the likeness of Ray the phrenologist will look in vain for indications of those intellectual faculties which are displayed in his writings. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History "Now if you had employed a phrenologist to examine a servant's head before engaging her, he would have told you at once whether she was likely to prove honest and faithful, or the reverse." Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck His head was capacious, but not remarkable for what phrenologists call moral development; while the sinister expression of his eyes—half submissive, half satirical—suggested doubts of his sincerity. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) The head itself is low, and, for the comfort of phrenologists, sadly deficient in "veneration." Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) The Professor followed him out, and soon returned and announced that the phrenologist was too much disabled to resume his position on the platform. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z Any phrenologist would have revelled in the task of fingering his bumps. A Modern Wizard "A dollar spent that way may save you hundreds of dollars, nay, perhaps thousands," said the phrenologist insinuatingly. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck The presence of the celebrated phrenologist, George Combe, in Rome at this time added much to Dr. Howe's enjoyment of the winter, and to mine. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 There is a faculty of the human mind to which phrenologists have given the name of Ideality, which is at the foundation of this exactingness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 Joseph Boneskull, the learned phrenologist, was to make a public examination of heads, and, as a sort of afterpiece, the Professor had promised to make some experiments in biology. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z Dr. Combe, an eminent authority in various departments of medicine and physiology, was a younger brother of George Combe, the distinguished phrenologist. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) "Surely you can spare twenty-five cents," said the phrenologist. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck Who likes to have a dapper phrenologist pronouncing on his fortunes? The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse She then announced that she is a “phrenologist,” and exhibited a plaster bust with the “bumps” scientifically marked out, and also some phrenological charts and other publications. The Witches of New York The head was a puzzle for the phrenologists, being remarkably small in the skull; a singularity which he had in common with Byron and Shelley, whose hats I could not get on. Life of John Keats Unerring physiognomists and phrenologists are we, and what with instinctive, and what with intuitive knowledge, we keek in a moment through all disguise. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Ladies and gentlemen, I am Prof. Crane, the phrenologist. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck The gross lines are legible to the dull: the cabman is phrenologist so far: he looks in your face to see if his shilling is sure. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse We incline to think phrenologists have as yet been very incomplete in their classification of faculties, or they would have appointed a separate organ for this propensity of human nature. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine But Smith’s bump of inquisitiveness was well developed, as the phrenologists say, and he was already impressed by the fact that no firm could afford to send out for hire a car like Medenham’s. Cynthia's Chauffeur The phrenologists taught that the cerebellum was the center for the sexual instinct, but there is no evidence in favor of this guess. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life His skull was sharply cut and fine; with plenty, according to the phrenologists, both of the reflective and amative organs: and his poetry will bear them out. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. I have been told by gypsies, palmists, phrenologists and other swindlers many senseless and incompatible things, but upon two matters they all agreed. My Impressions of America There was Professor Phyle, the celebrated phrenologist—a tall man, with a gaunt face and long gray hair. Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 In the earlier and soberer part of the afternoon the phrenologist had skilfully steered his way by the safe stars of flattery. Gold Nature had given me, in despite of the phrenologists, who find music indicated by two large protuberances on the corners of my forehead, a deplorably defective ear. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. The Haymarket Abbé takes his meals without blessing himself, by way of saying grace, and fumbles about the heads of people who ask his benison, like an awkward phrenologist feeling for bumps. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 O. S. Fowler, the distinguished phrenologist, in his work on Physiology, devotes nearly one hundred pages to the discussion of the great diet question. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery What phrenologists would call the adhesiveness of Hazlitt's mind, its extreme retentiveness for any impression which has once been received, tempts him to a constant repetition of familiar phrases and illustrations. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) He seized the aged phrenologist, and flung him bodily straight through the sides of a large tent, and immediately dove after him in pursuit. Gold It is just because the body is the true and exact expression of the consciousness in physical matter that the palmist and phrenologist can sometimes give us such remarkable delineations of character. Elementary Theosophy Her forehead, and the lower part of her face, are remarkable for their development, and an admirable study for the phrenologists, who would pronounce them models, as indicating firmness of character. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Mr. Fowler, the phrenologist, testifies, concerning one of them, that he is regarded as the strongest man in Philadelphia. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery This subject of hereditary mental taint or disorder, in connection with wrong doing, opens to the phrenologist a wide and important field for investigation. The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences Of the phrenologist nothing remained but a thin cloud of dust hanging in the still air. Gold I attended one of those lectures in company with Morgan Kennedy, a Keighley man, who afterwards became a professional phrenologist. Adventures and Recollections That trait in his character which phrenologists have named secretiveness largely governed his actions. James Madison From 'The Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah' The thoroughbred wanderer's idiosyncrasy I presume to be a composition of what phrenologists call "inhabitiveness" and "locality," equally and largely developed. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 The bump which phrenologists term reverence had small development in him at this period of his existence. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier The phrenologists say that memory is in proportion to clearness and strength of the impression produced at first; and this must be the case with him. Music and Some Highly Musical People They passed two days with George Combe, the great phrenologist, who examined and complimented Mrs. Mott's head, as indicating a strong symmetrical character. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Next to these we find Sublimity, which was correctly suggested by the Edinburgh phrenologists. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 Equally imaginary is the doctrine of the Edinburgh phrenologists, who call it Concentrativeness. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 There is an intensity of expression in the clear, deep-set eye, a shrewd observant look in the entire features, while it shows a capacity of forehead that will make Hans pass muster with modern phrenologists. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture The gentlemen had never before received a correct description from phrenologists he had visited. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 Physiologists affirm that the exercise of the muscles tends to their enlargement and fuller development; and phrenologists affirm that the exercise of the different faculties develops in a corresponding degree the bumps upon the cranium. Wilmot and Tilley His forehead is bony and full of character, with 'bumps' of wit large and radiant enough to transport a phrenologist. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Then, like the bearded phrenologist at the side-show of the circus, you put your fingers on them to read their humps. Chimney-Pot Papers “You used to pretend you were a phrenologist and all that kind of thing at school, I remember.” The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity The doctor, in addition to being everything that the New Englander is, is a phrenologist besides. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Mr. Fowler, the phrenologist, of Ludgate Circus, had been a fellow student of Beecher, and had measured his head, which he ascertained to have grown an inch in ten years. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis "Simply lack of self-esteem" I would say if there was no phrenologist near to correct me, and point out that well-developed hump at the extreme southern and heavenward portion of my Morgan head. A Confederate Girl's Diary The phrenologists are the only persons who have followed the order of nature in the study of mind; they have even determined the functions of the different parts of the brain. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' However, in his place we have secured the services of Prof. Mahmoud Click, of Constantinople; astrologer, phrenologist, mind-reader, and general all-round seer; and I am sure you will find him no less instructive and entertaining.” The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity He would have felt your head if he had stopped, for he is a great phrenologist. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) This was one of the incongruous combinations I spoke of; and forthwith I passed into the Co-operative Hall, resolving to defer my visit to the phrenologist. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis “I’ve not come off quite scatheless, however,” said Redding, rubbing the top of his head tenderly, “for here is a bump that would perplex the whole college of phrenologists.” Wrecked but not Ruined No phrenologist ever conceived half the number of bumps that were developed on his luckless cranium. Sunk at Sea There was an American practising phrenology, when a phrenologist arrived from England. Diary in America, Series Two After a minute’s pause I regained my power of speech, and inquired whether the phrenologist was ready. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver I should have said, as a phrenologist, Will feeble,—emotional, but not passionate,—likely to be enthusiast, or weakly bigot. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 How wide and various are the channels through which the phrenologist derives his facts. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 In this mysterious region of inquiry he joins hands with some questionable allies, such as the Spiritualists, the phrenologists and the mesmerizers. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 I was somewhat startled, then, in looking at the head and center of the great military system of Mars, to find in his appearance a striking conformation of the speculations of our terrestrial phrenologists. Edison's Conquest of Mars Prof. William Windsor, LL. B., the phrenologist whose lectures, in Los Angeles, last January, excited such general interest, returned to the city yesterday, en route for San Diego. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony “Skulls—skulls—do you know anything of the sublime science; are you a phrenologist?” Mr. Midshipman Easy The importance of these results for the zoologist and the phrenologist is then signalized, and the insertion of the Memoir in the volume of Transactions emphatically recommended. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 If ever language had its seat in that organ, as phrenologists pretend, it lies in the eye of the dog. The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too This puzzled him, as he did not know she was a phrenologist. Highways and Byways in Sussex This particular element of sense may, like all others, be only partially defective, but an examination by a competent phrenologist will disclose its exact state, whatever it may be. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony The horticulturist reads the peculiarities of the fruit as readily by its color as the phrenologist reads his by his 'bumps.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A phrenologist remarking that some persons had the organ of murder and benevolence strongly and equally developed, his friend replied, "that doubtless those were the persons who would kill one with kindness." The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings A phrenologist would have delighted in the study of that remarkable head. The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service When my eyes leave my book and wander to the view of the roofs, I fancy that the giant hands of a phrenologist are feeling the buildings which are the bumps of the city. Journeys to Bagdad It is well known to phrenologists that the skull is thinner in those regions that are most constantly used in the mental habits of the individual. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony A verdict was early pronounced on him by an eminent phrenologist who happened to be visiting the family. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 In this respect a phrenologist is a pure quack in comparison with a lady in a trance. Recollections of Europe Even George Combe, the phrenologist, most famous in his day, sat in judgment upon the young man while he was in prison, and published a pamphlet which made a great impression upon prison reformers. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends The sleepy old town in its previous existence had never felt a ripple of excitement more moving than a sewing bee, a travelling phrenologist or temperance lecturer, a summer picnic or a winter revival. Confessions of Boyhood The speaker was Professor William Windsor, LL. B., phrenologist and anthropologist, whose lectures last week at the Guard’s armory interested the people of Atlanta in the study of human character. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony I was somewhat startled, then, in looking at the head and centre of the great military system of Mars, to find in his appearance a striking confirmation of the speculations of our terrestrial phrenologists. Edison's Conquest of Mars Not long after this occurrence, Squire Hardy went to hear an itinerant phrenologist who lectured in the village. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Being an enormous miscreant the phrenologists got hold of him, and made the notorious facts of his character into evidence of the truth of their system. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends I heard it once only, together with another word, editor, which I understood as little, from the lips of a travelling phrenologist. Confessions of Boyhood Why, nobody has a better opportunity of doing good than a conscientious phrenologist, for he can look into a man’s character, into the inmost recesses of his heart, as it were.” How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony It is therefore tolerably certain that where, according to phrenologists, the organ of Hope is situated, there the Breton head will be found undeveloped. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 The most striking peculiarity in his personal appearance is the head, which is singularly formed, and has been pronounced, by some observers, the envy of phrenologists. Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk There is a curious delusion, fostered by phrenologists and other amiable students of "temperament," to the effect that a brunette must infallibly fall in love with a blonde and vice versa. The Spinster Book My mother said it was inside and that the phrenologist meant I must be a good boy. Confessions of Boyhood The conclusions of the phrenologist are based upon estimates of brain fiber, their quality and length from a point in the base of the brain directly between the ears, to the surface. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony Doctor Wells was also a most successful practical phrenologist, and lectured to large and fashionable houses of the first class ladies and gentlemen of Baltimore, and other cities. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States I have a tenacious and acute memory, and, as the phrenologists affirm, no hope, and feel disposed to lament that, not having both, I have either. Records of a Girlhood What dire misfortune may result if this rule is not followed can be only surmised, for the phrenologists do not know. The Spinster Book Quincy had, as the phrenologists say, a great bump for locality. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life The phrenologist, therefore, who essays to read your character, must be able to trace the signs of disease in your appearance. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony His brows were low and heavy; his mouth close, and remarkably hard for his years; the forehead low and narrow, and singularly deficient in what phrenologists term the moral and intellectual qualities. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One After this very fine description from Sir Hudson's friend, Forsyth adds a footnote: "It may interest phrenologists to know that the organs of combativeness, causativeness, and philoprogenitiveness were strongly developed in the cranium"! The Tragedy of St. Helena He was perfectly bald, but that must have been because Nature had not the heart to cover such a wonderful cranium from the admiring gaze of phrenologists. Doctor Claudius, A True Story It is—oh! what is that pet word of phrenologists? continuity, that I have not at my command. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories Never trust yourself under the hands of a professed phrenologist unless you are confident of his skill in estimating and diagnosing your physical condition. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony His forehead was low but broad, and the whole shape of his head such as would induce an intelligent phrenologist to pronounce him at once a thief and a murderer. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Genius of propriety, we have described his tail before that index of the mind, that idol of phrenologists, his pimple!—we beg pardon, we mean his head. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 And Timothy got a bump on the back of his head that no phrenologist could have easily described. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp If a phrenologist should undertake to "read" my head, he would undoubtedly find my love of home—if that is what it is called—a sharply defined welt. The Range Dwellers The phrenologist goes one step farther and asserts that size of brain in any particular region, judged by the same standards of comparison, is an indication of local power. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony At a later period his skull was examined by a phrenologist, who found it small and well formed; "one would take it at first for a woman's head." Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women The afternoon varieties were over, and a phrenologist was talking to a small crowd of gapers in a corner. Tales of the Five Towns His physique justified the well-known characterization of Mr. Fowler, the phrenologist, "Splendid animal." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The sailor and traveller … the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations He has a reputation that is almost international in his specialty; for, as a phrenologist, his discussion of the physical conditions which lead to crimes, have had a wide notoriety. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony But one day Mrs. Guinness had brought him in, being a phrenologist, to "feel Kitty's head." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 In criticism he was deficient in "individuality," if by that the phrenologists mean the power of seizing on the peculiar meanings of special forms. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II This would seem to have been the secret of Mr. Beecher's humor, for he had in an eminent degree what the phrenologists call the faculty of comparison. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Nothing aroused Emerson's indignation more than the attempts of the medical faculty and of phrenologists to classify, and therefore limit individuals. Emerson and Other Essays We have now fully demonstrated that in his scientific delineation of character the professional phrenologist depends upon something more than mere configuration of skull. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony Shoals of phrenologists, fortune-tellers, and the like, generally drunken old reprobates on their last legs, plied their trades. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado M. Comte is a phrenologist; he adopts the fundamental principles of Gall's system, but repudiates, as consummately absurd, the list of organs, and the minute divisions of the skull, which at present obtain amongst phrenologists. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 His hair disdained the persuasions of comb or brush, and rose in tangled masses above a head that would have driven a phrenologist mad. California Sketches, Second Series The phrenologists, the venders of patent medicine, the Christian Scientists, the single-taxers, and all who proclaim panaceas and nostrums make the same majestic and pontifical appeal to human nature. Emerson and Other Essays From the care of the phrenologist brothers Arnold, Robert Hart was taken over to a Wesleyan school in Taunton, England, by his father. Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition In his later years, when he filled the posts of Ecclesiastical Counsellor and Professor in the Gymnasium at Carlsruhe, the phrenologist Gall, in a scientific séance, made an examination of his head. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 The phrenologist is admitted into the hierarchy of science as an honest, though hitherto an unpractised, and not very successful labourer; the metaphysician, with his class of internal observations, is entirely scouted. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 Dicky rose stiffly, walked slowly around to my side of the table, and gravely tapped my head in imitation of a phrenologist. Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon But remember if your phrenologist tells you that you have a weak will, it does not mean that you must necessarily always have a weak will. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters It was further stipulated that no person in the room should give any indication by which the phrenologist might be enabled to judge whether he was supposed to be speaking correctly or not. Isaac T. Hopper Bray was an ardent phrenologist, and in 1832 published a work on The Education of the Feelings, based on phrenological principles. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy How came he, a phrenologist, so far and no further, but from certain information gathered from his consciousness, or his memory, which convicted phrenology of error? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 A shabbily dressed phrenologist laid his hand on every head which would bend, with half-conceited, half-sheepish expression, to the trial of his skill. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 A phrenologist would tell us that strongly developed organs of self-esteem and love of approbation accompanied this trait of character. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters I possessed, even as a child, an unusual share of what phrenologists call Concentrativeness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Perhaps he wanted a new cap, but the phrenologists would tell you he had got the organ of Imitation. The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales His skull was sharply cut and fine; with plenty, according to the phrenologists, both of the reflective and amative organs; and his poetry will bear them out. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829 The skull was unusually high and peaked at the point where phrenologists place the organ of veneration. Taquisara If you desire light from without upon the best path to pursue, I would advise you to find a good phrenologist, and have a careful reading made of your head. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters My ‘organ of veneration,’ as the phrenologists would say, was never very large. Phaethon There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. The Devil's Dictionary His hair was cropped close, and the unevennesses of his cranium, thus laid bare, would have struck a phrenologist by reason of the strange intertexture of contradictory propensities. A Hero of Our Time Some phrenologists affirm, that the agitation of a man’s brain by different passions, produces corresponding developments in the form of his skull. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people It is well known, that in Thurtel, who was executed for one of the most cold-blooded and remorseless murders ever heard of, the phrenologists found the organ of benevolence uncommonly large. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author I should have said, as a phrenologist, will feeble; emotional, but not passionate; likely to be an enthusiast or a weakly bigot. The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow Mr. Donovan, the famous phrenologist, was to be of the party; the Rector of Sevenoaks, and one or two local magnates, had also been invited to dine. Tracks of a Rolling Stone I don't think Terry had what the phrenologists call "the lump of philoprogenitiveness" at all well developed. Herland The sailor and traveler—the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian, and lexicographer, are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets, and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy But all this is overlooked by the phrenologists. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author Amateur fortune-tellers, however, discourse as glibly on them as phrenologists do of "bumps"—it is so easy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 This tendency of my cousin Orme had been predicted by a French phrenologist at Manchester when he was a boy. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian, and lexicographer, are not poets; but they are the lawgivers of poets, and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. Poems By Walt Whitman Call it natural character, conformation of the spirit,—conformation of the brain, if you like, if you are a scientific man and a phrenologist. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography But this is a mere shadow, a nothing, compared with the wholesale and indiscriminating judgment of the vulgar phrenologist. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author An erroneous phrenologist once told me that I would shine as a revivalist, and said that I ought to marry a tall blonde with a nervous, sanguinary temperament. Remarks His eyes, however, were dark and fine; his forehead bony, and with what a phrenologist would recognize as large bumps of wit; the mouth pleasingly dimpled. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes The sailor and traveller underlie the maker of poems, The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist—all these underlie the maker of poems. Poems By Walt Whitman Every one conversant with the present literature on physiology and psychology will see that phrenologists have conquered, and that their basic principles are now accepted by all. To Infidelity and Back Among others he met George Combe, the phrenologist, author of the once famous Constitution of Man, and he submitted to having his head "looked at." John James Audubon Much trouble has been done by a long haired phrenologist in the West who has, during his life, felt of over a hundred thousand heads. Remarks I also subscribed to Fowler's Phrenological Journal and for years accepted the phrenologists' own estimate of the value of their science. My Boyhood A phrenologist and a mesmerizer came—and went again and left the village duller and drearier than ever. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5. It is for this reason that phrenologists have supposed that the organ of ideality is located on the side of the head,—if there really is any such organ. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne "Yes," the phrenologist continued, while Malachi sat horror-stricken; "I've got Jimmy Nowlett's skull here," and he lifted the bag and lovingly felt the pumpkin—it must have weighed forty pounds. While the Billy Boils A phrenologist would probably have found the organ of destructiveness in strong development, just then, upon Edward's cranium; for he certainly manifested an impulse to break and destroy whatever chanced to be within his reach. Fanshawe When I was a boy six or seven years old a quack phrenologist stopped at our house and Father kept him over night. My Boyhood Sometimes a phrenologist who had strayed into our midst would follow on with a brief phrenological séance, and nothing afforded the comrades more satisfaction than to be informed that their bumps showed undoubted criminal propensities. A Girl Among the Anarchists They invoke the name of "science" with just as much confidence and just as much claim as the early Victorian phrenologists. Mankind in the Making I really believe that Malachi's hair bristled between the phrenologist's fingers. While the Billy Boils Some passages will startle the rigidly orthodox; the phrenologists will be in rapture. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 He was in charge of a warder, and looked round with the utmost composure, as though examining the Caesars in the British Museum, and was as interested as any fanatical fool of a phrenologist. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) In 1805, Dr. Gall, the celebrated phrenologist, visited the prison of Berlin in the course of his experimental travels to establish his theories. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 A phrenologist by profession, so he said, he had resorted to barbering simply for amusement, and under the circumstances he would give me a professional sitting gratuitously. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 "Bricky" was a bit of a phrenologist, and knew enough of physiognomy and human nature to give a pretty fair delineation of character. While the Billy Boils The Hindus are not naturally given to senseless vandalism, and a phrenologist would vainly look for a bump of destructiveness on their skulls. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan A phrenologist would have said that his head did not lack the bump of caution; but I know better. Man on the Box Probably what started these golden dreams was an itinerant quack phrenologist who passed the night at our house when I was a lad of eight or nine. Our Friend John Burroughs A phrenologist would have attentively studied these ghastly and bronzed faces, with their flat foreheads, their cruel and insidious glances, wicked mouths, and brawny necks; almost all offered a frightful resemblance to the brute. Mysteries of Paris, V3 Now Malachi," said the phrenologist sternly, "d'ye think I'm a fool? While the Billy Boils It is observed, however, that persons with what the phrenologists call "good heads" are more prone than others toward plenary belief in the doctrine. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Why should a man's life be divided into little artificial sections, like the labelled heads in the phrenologist's window? Without Prejudice Others limited the decoration to two rats' tails depending from the temples, where phrenologists localize our "causality." Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 She had a large, square forehead, white enough, but strongly marked with inequalities of surface, which, however much they might have delighted a phrenologist, were not conducive to girlish comeliness. A Siren Malachi occupied a hut some distance from the station, and one night, the last night of the bricklayer's stay, as Malachi sat smoking over the fire the door opened quietly and the phrenologist entered. While the Billy Boils Then comes out the grand reserve—reason which covers everything and renders it simply impossible ever to corner a phrenologist. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor It was called Lavater Cottage, as it had belonged to that famous phrenologist, and he had been in the habit of staying there regularly. My Life — Volume 2 "An infidel you may be," I say to myself, "but not a bad man; on the contrary a man with much that is true and noble, or I am no physiognomist or phrenologist either." Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. Warrington's was what the wise phrenologists call the fighting nose; not pugnacious, but the nose of a man who will fight for what he believes to be right, fight bitterly and fearlessly. Half a Rogue Mr. Smith and myself cannot boast of larger organs of Inhabitativeness—I believe, that is the word used by phrenologists—than many of our neighbors. Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper The argument may be briefly stated thus by the phrenologist: "Heads I win, tails you lose." Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Mr. Ducker was something of a phrenologist, and went blithely on to his own destruction. Sowing Seeds in Danny The thoroughbred wanderer's idiosyncrasy, I presume to be a composition of what phrenologists call inhabitiveness and locality equally and largely developed. The Life of Sir Richard Burton He had thick reddish-yellow eyebrows at the base of a slightly receding forehead—wanting in benevolence, phrenologists would have said, and with the bump of self-esteem considerably developed. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life "Al-Kasab," which phrenologists would translate "acquisitiveness," The author is here attempting to reconcile man's moral responsibility, that is Freewill, with Fate by which all human actions are directed and controlled. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 His forehead was large, with, to use the language of the phrenologists, the organs of the perceptive faculties far more developed than those of the imaginative powers. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters Anomalous facts, as the never quite obsolete rumors of magic and demonology, and the new allegations of phrenologists and neurologists, are of ideal use. Essays — Second Series How wearisome the grammarian, the phrenologist, the political or religious fanatic, or indeed any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic. Essays — First Series If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square. Moby Dick, or, the whale The Nut If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale We neglected to count on that passion which is innate in women, and which phrenologists call combativeness. Samuel Brohl and Company I am no phrenologist, not knowing one organ from another, but I thought the skull of that wretched man no study. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner To speak as a phrenologist, the cranium common to the Vril-ya has the organs of weight, number, tune, form, order, causality, very largely developed; that of construction much more pronounced than that of ideality. The Coming Race He more than once spoke of Ivan as a living satire on physiognomists and phrenologists; and as I am a phrenologist, I listened with some incredulity. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Nor did he need a phrenologist to tell him that Nora was a born flirt and that her shy slant glances were meant to penetrate tough hides to tender hearts. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West Barnum refused him entrance; and as he was slightly intoxicated, he struck Barnum with a slung shot, mashing his hat and grazing what phrenologists call "the organ of caution." The Life of Phineas T. Barnum It would be idle to take up in any detail the claims of phrenologist and palmist. The Foundations of Personality The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer, The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist, all these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer. Leaves of Grass |
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