It is hideous to my imagination, especially what is called phrenological mesmerism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference

New York, the leading phrenological publishing-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

I can tell them by their phrenological appearances whenever they are before me.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

I must say that your phrenological pattern has many great similarities to my own.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Don't Know Him] Reference

Talked very much about the fine phrenological development of Sir Robert Peel's skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference

His head was large; and his shaven cranium afforded an interesting phrenological treat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832] Reference

Charles Ward is the LNN's Director of Public Relations and senior phrenological correspondent.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated Guide : The Lovecraft News Network] Reference

The second step in a phrenological examination is the determination of the quality of the organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

‘Strong phrenological developments of the organ of firmness, in Mr. Murdstone and his sister, sir.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

Lorenzo Fowler was to later open offices in London where he performed a phrenological examination of Mark Twain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

I have also had the benefit of numerous photographs, in which the phrenological features are distinctly preserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

On his birthday he received a beautiful phrenological head, all marked with figures to the thorax and painted blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

They did not look askance at such a controversial subject, having published the Fowler family's phrenological books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference

The number specifies the location of each organ, which is followed by its phrenological name, and classified as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

He had now an opportunity of observing that as to the phrenological formation of the backs of their heads, the Professing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

In respect of ideality, reverence, wonder, and other such phrenological attributes, it is no worse off than it used to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak House] Reference

Comptroller of Stamps, and Charles Lamb's 'Diddle diddle dumpling,' and 'Allow me to look at the gentleman's phrenological development.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Bearing these facts in mind we will now proceed to the discussion of the scientific principles governing the phrenological examination of.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

Many theories, even phrenological theories, have been advanced to explain the origin of the cuckoo laying its eggs in other birds 'nests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Charles fled to his study and wept there, both his elbows on the table, sitting in an arm-chair at his bureau under the phrenological head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

The fourth wall was hung with a plethora of charts: phrenological graphs, acupuncture charts, and ancient anatomical diagrams inscribed in Sanskrit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul] Reference

I think the superiority of the phrenological classification of the mental powers to that of other systems of psychology will be apparent from the following.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

According to the phrenological classification, the intellectual faculties are divided into three classes; viz.: the perceptive, literary and reasoning faculties.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

And I believe that I can best do so by taking you through the successive steps of a phrenological examination, and by thus practicing the art, illustrate the science.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

Perhaps there is no branch of the science of phrenology which has received such crude treatment at the hands of phrenological writers as this subject of organic quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

We draw certain conclusions from this inspection of the physiognomical signs, and these conclusions are phrenological, for every variation of color, form or size indicates.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

In 1839, George Combe subjected us to phrenological treatment, and had the frankness to acknowledge that it was impossible for an individual to properly describe a great nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference

"What a phrenological lecturer you would have made!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference

It is not necessary to prove the falsity of the phrenological statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

I have nothing against the grand total of my phrenological endowments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

The pictorial illustrations show the location of each of the phrenological organs and their natural language.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies] Reference

Indeed, the phrenological school have positively misconceived and misstated the principles of cerebral development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5] Reference

On his birthday he received a beautiful phrenological head, all marked with figures to the thorax, and painted blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life] Reference

"Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3.] Reference

The conversation happening to turn on phrenology, he insisted on my examining his head, and pronouncing a phrenological diagnosis on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference

But when Faber rested on phrenological observations assurances in honour of Lilian, I forgot Sir W. Hamilton, and believed in phrenology.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference

The idea of a specific antagonist to Self-esteem was never entertained in the phrenological school, but it is obviously indispensable, for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11] Reference