Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . d accuracy, under the dominionof avarice and a reftlefs fpint, and deltitute of fagacity except intrifles. No. 2. though of a delicate conftitution, has however neither theweaknefs nor the littlenefs of the preceding. No. 3. is a male fcull* You obferve in it the frontal finufes,which are rarely or never to be found in the female fcull. Thischaracter is thefrankeft, the moll iincere, and moft judicious of thethree—without being a genius of the firft, nor even of the fecond*rder. I. Sculls.—Profile I.* Profile I
Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . d accuracy, under the dominionof avarice and a reftlefs fpint, and deltitute of fagacity except intrifles. No. 2. though of a delicate conftitution, has however neither theweaknefs nor the littlenefs of the preceding. No. 3. is a male fcull* You obferve in it the frontal finufes,which are rarely or never to be found in the female fcull. Thischaracter is thefrankeft, the moll iincere, and moft judicious of thethree—without being a genius of the firft, nor even of the fecond*rder. I. Sculls.—Profile I.* Profile II.—&v? the Plate. The firft profile, taken as a whole and compared with the fe-cond, is too perpendicular, and bears upon ic the indication of wantof underftanding and delicacy. But this defect is in fome meaiureeffaced by the chin,and by the angle which the noie forms with theforehead. The obferver will preiently difcover, in the outline ex-tending from the root of the no!e up to the crown of the head, theexpreffion of obftinacy deltitute of energy. Tne gggJ££ lavaters physiognomy; 155 The other profile is very different from the firft. You diftin-guifh in it the defign of a great acquiline nofe, lingular force in thepituitary finufcs of the forehead, much coarfenefs in the lengthenedunder part of the face ; little delicacy and referve; an air infi-pid, barm and infenfible; a mixture of malice, cunning and ttupi-dity. OF TWO OLD men»—5w the Plate, 1. Is the fcull of an old man who was beheaded ; it is chiefly re«markablefor the protuberances of the jugular bone, and its pointed,angular chin. The forehead is ordinary without being ignoble,and indicates quicknefs of conception. 2. Another head of a decapitated old man, whofe fcull is in itfelfof an extraordinary thicknefs. The outline of the forehead wouldbe admirable, were it drawn with more truth and eyes were probably very much funk; at leaft the contour ofthe forehead leads one to thi
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