Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . J3w/ffv>Sculp. after P, MIGNARD //•(; 72 Jj&vater. 106 ftj]£73 YallL. lavaters PHYSIOGNOMY. 73 qualities are difeernible in the copies of his pictures, even in thofewhere the outline alone is given. The beautiful group here pre-fented is a proof of this. The man full of courage is the moll elevated figure ; but whc,feized with tendernefs and dread; is on the point of fainting away:his geftures already indicate the approach of a fainting fit. In the figure which fupports the two perfons who are iiruckwith the
Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . J3w/ffv>Sculp. after P, MIGNARD //•(; 72 Jj&vater. 106 ftj]£73 YallL. lavaters PHYSIOGNOMY. 73 qualities are difeernible in the copies of his pictures, even in thofewhere the outline alone is given. The beautiful group here pre-fented is a proof of this. The man full of courage is the moll elevated figure ; but whc,feized with tendernefs and dread; is on the point of fainting away:his geftures already indicate the approach of a fainting fit. In the figure which fupports the two perfons who are iiruckwith the peililence, there is much more energy ftill, more refolu-tion, and more prefence of mind. He is a being of a fteady andhonefl character, a perfon in whom you may rely on with fafety;but whom you muft be careful not to aggravate or ufe he be not fufceptible cf real tendernefs, his candour andliability would make him an amiable friend; while his courage,vigour, and inflexibility, would render him a powerful fympathy is great, but companion deprives him not of powerto lend his aid. The head of the fainting furgeon is too i
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