Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . spitality, THE TURKEY. 149 that prompts him to do so. In the young Turk faith is moreblind than in the old; and the eyes, like the faculties of themind, are peeping. In thisportrait of the present sultanof Turkey, Abdul-Medjid,the eyes are of this descrip-tion, resembling those of ayoung turkey. From suchfeatures we might expect agreat deal if the eyes wereopen, and were not continu-ally peeping after their owninterests. The young tur-keys voice peeps incessant- /*ly, and so do his eyes. LouisNapoleons eyes are of thesame char
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . spitality, THE TURKEY. 149 that prompts him to do so. In the young Turk faith is moreblind than in the old; and the eyes, like the faculties of themind, are peeping. In thisportrait of the present sultanof Turkey, Abdul-Medjid,the eyes are of this descrip-tion, resembling those of ayoung turkey. From suchfeatures we might expect agreat deal if the eyes wereopen, and were not continu-ally peeping after their owninterests. The young tur-keys voice peeps incessant- /*ly, and so do his eyes. LouisNapoleons eyes are of thesame character, except thatthey are carnivorous, and re-semble more the eyes of a turkey-buzzard or a stork. Sucheyes can have faith in the dreams of the alchemists, and canengage in a search for the philosophers stone, confident offilling coffers with gold and of creating an inexhaustible treas-ury, as was the case with the individual last let us glance at some of the more obvious, external re-semblances between theturkey and the is a great abun-.
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