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Elements of phrenology (1845)

Combe, George, 1788-1858 · New York : Colyer · leaf 117

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are mildand pacific ; those, on the other hand, in whichit is small and depressed are ill-natured. It isdepressed in all the ferocious tribes of animals,and also in nations remarkable for cruelty. Theancients make the top of the forehead muchhigher in Seneca than in Nero. It has been objected, that… … BENEVOLENCE. 121 of those men of undoubted benevolence of charac-ter and disposition, whose principal delight is tosee a miserable criminal, degraded alike by hisprevious crimes and the sentence which he hasincurred, conclude a vicious and a wretched life,by an ignominious and cruel death. (St.…

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