. Comstock's elocution and model speaker ... . he forehead, throws back the head and body,and retires with a long and sadden step. (Fig. 83. p. 99. Deliberation on ordinary subjects, holds the chinand 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 deg
. Comstock's elocution and model speaker ... . he forehead, throws back the head and body,and retires with a long and sadden step. (Fig. 83. p. 99. Deliberation on ordinary subjects, holds the chinand 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 retireand affection stimulates the person to advance. () The figure represents Frederick de Reuss, in aGerman play, who unexpectedly sees his dear friend. 136 He withdraws, in surprise, his body and lower limbs,Riid, in the ardour of friendship, immediately stretchesforwards his head and his arms. When the thoughts flow withoutdiilicuity or opposition, the move-ment of the limbs is free and when difficulties occur, or ob-stacles are discovered, a man eitherarrests his action entirely, or changesit to something altogether direction of his eyes, and the(ggxi^action of his head, are also, under ^e*—=*similar circumstances, quite eyes, instead of moving freelyfrom object to object, become fixed,and the head is thrown back, if be-fore hanging down on the breast. As an example ofthese effects, M. Engel refers to a scene in a play ofLessing, in which an old gentleman is very muchpuzzled how to ma-nage, in a situa-tion of great diffi-culty and the commence-ment of his delibe-rations he is repre-sented as in Fig. i09,and in the next pe-riod of them, as
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