New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . ay, though, perhaps, with less purityand uniformity in Europe than in America. The nasal twang, therefore, of a few of our uneducatedEastern people, may be compared to the brogues of igno-rant foreigners, and the lingoes of untutored Africans. Itsimply indicates a want of culture. Every person expresses something of his character in all his talk, walk, and the base of the brain ina cultivated person pre-dominate, the voice ^vi\\ beheavy, exp
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . ay, though, perhaps, with less purityand uniformity in Europe than in America. The nasal twang, therefore, of a few of our uneducatedEastern people, may be compared to the brogues of igno-rant foreigners, and the lingoes of untutored Africans. Itsimply indicates a want of culture. Every person expresses something of his character in all his talk, walk, and the base of the brain ina cultivated person pre-dominate, the voice ^vi\\ beheavy, expressed with vig-or and force correspondingwith the degree of execu-tiveness which he the middle range of or-gans be largest, the toneswill be more musical, ex-pressing the poetical andoratorical feelings. If thetop-head predominate, thevoice will be still more sub-dued, the intonations har-Fig. Jenny LindGoldsmidt. monizing with the Sympa-thetic, spiritual, and devotional. The same voice will be modified by the subject on which itis exercised. When Jenny Lind sang the little love song— * Coming through the rye,. she I gave expression to the social feelings, and the voice was THE VOICE OF DEVOTION. 327 lively, rattling, and joyous, and the people all laughed andwere me^ry. But when she sang— I know that my Redeemer liveth,there was a grandeur and solemnity in her tones which seemedunconsciously to lift her vast audience to their feet, and holdthem spell-bound by the magic of her voice. Who that everheard her in this can forget ? MUSIC AND CHARACTER. Tell us what sort of music you like best, and you therebyreveal your true character. If it be love songs, which proceedfrom the social nature, it is in that, that you predominate. Ifwar songs, referring to the roar of cannon, the rattle of mus-ketry, to blood and carnage, then there is where you it be to the more artistic warblins^ and trillino:, which Ideality and Imitation, that indicat
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