Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States (1840)
Combe, George, 1788-1858, Boardman, Andrew · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 196
t four o clock in the morning, that he mightnot encroach on the time required for his regular duties,and speedily acquired the wished for kowledge. Approach-ing the old man with a book in his hand, he proved to him,that if nothing seems easyto ignorance, nothing is im-possible to devotion. Iagain… … Griffiths. 192 BENEVOLENCE. giving alms or money, is a vulgar error. It is benevolencetoward those vvitii whom we live, to order our arrange-mentf with a due regard to their comfort, and not to denjthem proper gratifications; it is benevolent to suppress ourhumours and impulses, when these would…
Phrenology
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