The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . dclever at innumerable pursuits, but they seldom excelgreatly in any one ; as I have said just above, theircapacity for making the best of it and their generalmoral indifference standing in the way of excellencein any one line. They have this great differencefrom subjects whose hands are of a particular type;these last have talents more pronounced than ver-satile ; people whose hands are mixed are moreversatile than individual. The former are instructiveto talk to, the latter am
The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . dclever at innumerable pursuits, but they seldom excelgreatly in any one ; as I have said just above, theircapacity for making the best of it and their generalmoral indifference standing in the way of excellencein any one line. They have this great differencefrom subjects whose hands are of a particular type;these last have talents more pronounced than ver-satile ; people whose hands are mixed are moreversatile than individual. The former are instructiveto talk to, the latter amusing; the latter succeed bestwhen their most pronounced talent is assiduouslycultivated, in which case they succeed enormously. Take, for instance, the example we have given inFig. 7. This is what we might call the artistico-elementary hand. This ugly-looking hand, lesssupple and more thick than the true artistic hand,has not, however, the largeness, the grossness andextreme hardness of the true elementary fingers are big, smooth (sometimes with onejoint swollen; not developed, but swollen), the thumb. Fig 6. The Seven Types of Hands. 65 big, and the general character of the hand a subject is greedy but avaricious, , he is sen-sual, but he only gratifies his sensuality when hecan do so at a small expense; he is moral, but withoutprinciple; he keeps the law, but is not ethically just;he is sanctimonious, perchance bigoted, without beingpious ; though he is hardy he will not endure hard-ships which bring him no corresponding a hand closes easily, but opens with difficulty ;this is the case, metaphorically as well as actually; it isnot apt at hard work, or manual labour, but it excelsat scheming, arranging and negotiating for its ownadvantage, the manual labours of others. Other varieties of the mixed hand it would be easyto enumerate, had we space and time; and did wenot think that the dissertations we have already givenon the various typ
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