Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . generations that are past, as for example old castles, moulder-ing walls, the ruins of temples, and Rocks, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled,The fragments of an earlier world. He has antiquity written in his visage, and expressed inhis sage demeanor, and in that long beard that has alwaysbeen the badge of wisdom and patriarchal dignity. Whomore than the Jew has defended this mark of manhood amidall the obloquy that has been heaped upon it? He inclinesto preserve it as a token of age, of wisdom, of experience, andof matured
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . generations that are past, as for example old castles, moulder-ing walls, the ruins of temples, and Rocks, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled,The fragments of an earlier world. He has antiquity written in his visage, and expressed inhis sage demeanor, and in that long beard that has alwaysbeen the badge of wisdom and patriarchal dignity. Whomore than the Jew has defended this mark of manhood amidall the obloquy that has been heaped upon it? He inclinesto preserve it as a token of age, of wisdom, of experience, andof matured and masculine intellect. It carries with it the im-pression of authority, as of something that grows hoary withage, and resists the liability to decay. ¥o betide the handthat plucks the wizard beard of hoary error ! That hand — 308 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. • Might wish that it had rather daredTo pull the devil by the beard! The Jew had ancestors that lived from two to nine hundredyears; and nothing could be more sure to offend him thanthe representation tha
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