George Combe Quotes

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• The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders…
• Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles…
• While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there…
• I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened.…
• And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be…
• We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or…
• He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
• They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to…
• I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which…
• The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief…
• The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such…

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