New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . writer in an English magazine discoursesvery learnedly and eloquently on the noses of celebrated char-acters as follows: When I had pondered Lavatei-, and sur^•eyed antiquitiesin stone and bronze, frescoes and vases, I looked into the col-lections of portraits of distinguished men, looking especially,as we always do and must look, at the most prominent Avonderful noses they have ! There was not such a nosein all Europe, in his time, as tha
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . writer in an English magazine discoursesvery learnedly and eloquently on the noses of celebrated char-acters as follows: When I had pondered Lavatei-, and sur^•eyed antiquitiesin stone and bronze, frescoes and vases, I looked into the col-lections of portraits of distinguished men, looking especially,as we always do and must look, at the most prominent Avonderful noses they have ! There was not such a nosein all Europe, in his time, as that worn upon the face of the Emperor Charles Y.; and thoseof Henry IV., Pope AlexanderVII., Charles XII. of Sweden,and Frederick II. of Prussia, were scarcely less fierce nose of the youth-ful Napoleon compacted intothe massive one of the Em-peror ; and then, for a soldierlyand heroic nose, where wouldyou look for a finer one thanthat which marked, among amillion, the striking face ofWellington? All that wasgreat in firmness, patience, andheroism in the character ofWashington is stamped on his prominent and handsome Fisr. NOTED NOSES 221
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