A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . ELOCUTION. 11 Melancholy is a feeble and passive affection; it isattended by a total relaxation of the muscles, with amute and tranquil resignation, un-accompanied by opposition eitherto the cause or the sensibility ofthe evil. The character, externally,is languor, without motion, thehead hanging at the side next theheart, the eyes turned upon itsobject, or, if that is absent, fixedupon the ground, the hands hang-ing down by their own weight,without effort, and joined loose
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . ELOCUTION. 11 Melancholy is a feeble and passive affection; it isattended by a total relaxation of the muscles, with amute and tranquil resignation, un-accompanied by opposition eitherto the cause or the sensibility ofthe evil. The character, externally,is languor, without motion, thehead hanging at the side next theheart, the eyes turned upon itsobject, or, if that is absent, fixedupon the ground, the hands hang-ing down by their own weight,without effort, and joined looselytogether. (Fig. 111.) Anxiety is of a different charac-ter; it is restless and active, andmanifest by the extension of the muscles; the eye isfilled with fire, the breathing is quick, the motion ishurried, the head is thrown back, the whole body isextended. The sufferer is like a sickman, who tosses incessantly, and findshimself uneasy in every situation. () One of the causes of M. Engels ges-tures of analogy is, as he observes, the disposition of the mind to refer intellec-tual ideas to external objects.
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