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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1851 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1871 Edition.
Title: Wa-Wa-Wanda: a legend of old Orange.Author: John B
NewmanPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02424000CollectionID:
CTRG97-B3144PublicationDate: 18600101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: In verse. "Map of Minisink Battle Ground"-- 1] folded
leaf, after p. 4. Authorship attributed to John B. Newman. Cf. NUC
pre-1956; LC# 10-4338.Collation: 180, 8 p., 1] folded leaf, 4]
leaves of plates: ill., map; 19 cm
1851. This work shows the natural history of man in three aspects
of plant, beast and angel, including plant life, comprising the
nutritive apparatus; beast life, or soul, the phrenological
faculties; and angel life, or spirit, Jehovah's likeness in man.
Illustrated with engravings. Contents: creation of the life power;
nature of plant life; mode of working of the plant life; nervous
system; two lives of man; sensations, perceptions, and ideas;
physiognomy, the temperaments and races of men; faculties, and
their organs; education of the intellect; education of the
sensibilities; state of the personality after death; spiritual
communications; explanation of seerism.
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1851. This work shows the natural history of man in three aspects
of plant, beast and angel, including plant life, comprising the
nutritive apparatus; beast life, or soul, the phrenological
faculties; and angel life, or spirit, Jehovah's likeness in man.
Illustrated with engravings. Contents: creation of the life power;
nature of plant life; mode of working of the plant life; nervous
system; two lives of man; sensations, perceptions, and ideas;
physiognomy, the temperaments and races of men; faculties, and
their organs; education of the intellect; education of the
sensibilities; state of the personality after death; spiritual
communications; explanation of seerism.
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
HOUSE OF THE SOUL. 39 CONVERSATION III. PHSYIOLOGY. Doctor. The
body is the house of the soul: in an upper story, confined to an
inner chamber, closely imprisoned, and having no communication with
the external world, except through the medium of the life
principle, resides our immortal being. Lady. But there is no
mention of a double life in the account of man's creation. Genesis
ii, 7, says that the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
become a living soul. Doctor. The Hebrew word, in that passage, for
life, is used in the plural; so that your objection but confirms
the physiological view. It should read, breathed into his nostrils
the breath of lives. Lady. Is the life principle immortal as well
as the soul? Doctor. I believe it is, but only in consequence of
its connection with the soul, to which it is subservient. It is an
intermediate between spirit and matter, presenting to us certain
phenomena, by which we are enabled to recognize its possession of
seven distinct properties; these are: ? Vital Affinity.
Vivification. Mobility. Irritability. 40 Instinct. Instinct.
Sympathy. Sensibility. The first five are common to all animated
nature? plants as well as animals; the last two, in consequence of
requiring a nervous system for their development, belong only to
animals. Vital affinity and vivification are used in the
organization of matter. Mobility is the power of originating
motion, as shown in the circulation of the sap and shrinking of the
mimosa. Irritability, or excitability, is the power of giving and
receiving impressions?of acting upon matter, and of being, in turn,
acted upon by it?and is one of the most important of all. The
instinctive property of plant...
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