A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . Distress, when extreme, lays the palm of the handupon the forehead, throws back the head and body,and retires with a long and sudden step. (Fig. 83. p. 99.) Deliberation on ordinary subjects, holds the chin,and sets the arm a-kimbo. (Fig. 84, p. 99.) Self-sufficiency folds the arms, and sets himself onhis centre. (Fig. 48, p. 92.) This was a favouriteposture of Bonaparte. Pride throws back the body, and holds the head high. These few complex significant gestures are some of
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . Distress, when extreme, lays the palm of the handupon the forehead, throws back the head and body,and retires with a long and sudden step. (Fig. 83. p. 99.) Deliberation on ordinary subjects, holds the chin,and sets the arm a-kimbo. (Fig. 84, p. 99.) Self-sufficiency folds the arms, and sets himself onhis centre. (Fig. 48, p. 92.) This was a favouriteposture of Bonaparte. Pride throws back the body, and holds the head high. These few complex significant gestures are some ofthe most obvious, and principally such as occurred inthe illustration of other parts of this system; theyserve, however, in some degree, to explain the natureof these gestures. But among the writers who havetreated particularly of significant gestures, none havewritten with greater ingenuity than Engel: we willborrow, therefore, an example or two from him. Surprise causes the body and lower limbs to retire, and affection stimulates the person to advance. (Fig. 108.) The figure represents Frederick de Reuss, in a Ger
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