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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...occiput is of great length, the one and the other largely projecting. tions about the brows, by which we are enabled to see things as they are. Perhaps so--but I must beg leave to trust my own eyes notwithstanding, particularly as I never could perceive, but that I discern, as well as another, whatever my visual organs have been trained to distinguish. Through an hereditary, and nearly fatal tendency to consumption, a shot on the wing, and a hunter of deer, and of foxes, I can mark the flying quarry, and detect the faint traces of larger game, or find my way in the forest, with as much dexterity as any sportsman with whom I have associated, whose general habits have borne even an analogy to my own. Yet to avoid error, I have selected, and shall state instances so strongly marked, as to render a mistake impracticable. There was, at the college where I was educated, a pupil of whose physical formation you will have an accurate idea, when I state that the students of mathematics used to write on the walls, " What is a line 1 G. M.'s body." "What is a point t G. M.'s head." This last was so small and round, that hats being imported in those days, in what were called nests, that is, one within the other, Mr. M. was in the habit of selecting the first in the series, and it was as perfectly circular when laid aside as when first put on. Now this gentleman labored under no deficiency, and, with some eccentricity, was endowed with talents much above the common order. Again, there resided in the same neighborhood a Mr. C. whose cranium was so diminutive and so globular, that it was a matter also of ridicule. A turnip was in this case taken as the symbol, where turnips are usually about the size of the fist. The similitude, I have been assured by a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155125978
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 60
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155125975
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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