Quotes by George Combe - Page 1

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
George Combe / Author
Curious
Goodness
Mere
Outrage
Protect
Number
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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 me very indifferent to the rest of the world.
George Combe / Author
Enjoyment
Indifferent
Invaluable
Mind
Sufficient
Texture
World
World Mind Me
Although
Numerous
Whom
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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 are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.
George Combe / Author
Liable
Mean
Muscles
Taught Us
Thinking
Brief
Locomotive
Proposed
Therefore
Thinks
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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 submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
George Combe / Author
Wisdom
Brute Force
England
Force
Mass
Midst
Nonsense
Overwhelming
Submission
Submit
Brute
Chooses
Nation
Invader
Robbed
Seemed
Shores
Visit
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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 simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
George Combe / Author
Discourse
Evening
Gratification
Practice
Tedium
Discovered
Expressed
Individuals
Relieving
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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 at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
George Combe / Author
Accustomed
Cases
Evidence
Fairly
Agent
Alter
Aspects
Extent
Invent
Manufacture
Viewed
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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 it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.
George Combe / Author
Absence
Air
Breathed
Contained
Hall
Hour
Properties
Renewed
Vital
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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 are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.
George Combe / Author
Acknowledge
Cases
Character
Conducting
Divine
Individual
Law
Morality
Obligation
Scotland
Gentlemen
Mode
No Law
Preserve
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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 found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.
George Combe / Author
Agents
Cases
Deny
Desperate
Men Always Man
Bar
Bold
Men Man Always
Lend
Services
Unprincipled
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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. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.
George Combe / Author
Fear
Air
Astonishment
Catching
Cold
Dread
Gentleman
Hats
Caused
Alarm
Avoid
Generally
Gentlemen
Ladies
Opened
Widely
Windows
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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 rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
George Combe / Author
Admission
Air
Effects
Minutes
Pure
Refreshing
Above
Allowed
Brief
Hour
Interval
Lecture
Resumed
Sustained
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Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality, intrinsic elegance is much more pleasing and permanently agreeable, than forms of less merit, recommended merely by being new. Hence there is a beauty which never palls, and there are objects over which fashion exercises no control.
George Combe / Author
Exercise
Fashion
Real
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Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.
George Combe / Author
Brain
Energy
Hands
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A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.
George Combe / Author
Exercise
Night
Sleep
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While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being.
George Combe / Author
Animal
Intelligent
Religious
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