Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . , and withouthaving principles lucidly explained. His attachments^ like hisexertions, cannot combine a great number cf objects; but if lieform an attachment, that attachment will be clofe, firm, concen-trated. In thefe three countenances, particularly in (a) and (c),the forehead and eye-brows proclaim Foraewh&t of the fuperiorityof genius *; or, in other words, facility of receiving particularimpreffions, and the faculty of imparting them, and yet fartheryoii may obferve that this facility is lingular in its fp
Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . , and withouthaving principles lucidly explained. His attachments^ like hisexertions, cannot combine a great number cf objects; but if lieform an attachment, that attachment will be clofe, firm, concen-trated. In thefe three countenances, particularly in (a) and (c),the forehead and eye-brows proclaim Foraewh&t of the fuperiorityof genius *; or, in other words, facility of receiving particularimpreffions, and the faculty of imparting them, and yet fartheryoii may obferve that this facility is lingular in its fpecies. Itgrafps its point earneftly, views it with rapture, delights in it, and,in fhort, becomes itfelf identified with it. A poetical capacity is indicated by the lips (b) and (c), whichwill not fioop to the confinement of rules, (d) and (e) do notoffer a contrail, but extremes : the fecond hides, the fir ft enjoys;One obliges you to receive* the other gives. * The plate under inveftigation offeis the inadequate reprefsntation of a?stkb rated Mufician, A D D & 79
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