New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . ng his dominions. This warlike measure, which gained for him Si-lesia, was the beginning of a general war in Europe, mainly directed againsthim. He fought successively the armies of France, Russia, Austria, Sax- 728 CHARACTER-READING. himself, an acute observer, drawing his own inferences in amanner peculiarly his own. Frederic the Great was an orig-inal worker, conceiving schemes and personally reducing themto practice and astonishing the world by his
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . ng his dominions. This warlike measure, which gained for him Si-lesia, was the beginning of a general war in Europe, mainly directed againsthim. He fought successively the armies of France, Russia, Austria, Sax- 728 CHARACTER-READING. himself, an acute observer, drawing his own inferences in amanner peculiarly his own. Frederic the Great was an orig-inal worker, conceiving schemes and personally reducing themto practice and astonishing the world by his performances,while Carlyle astonished the world by the novelty of hisliterary productions. ony, and Bavaria, whicli countries were at one time allied to crush him,and after years of struggle the treaty of Hubertsburg left Frederic in thepossession of Silesia. In the famous seven years war, he in fact stood aloneagainst continental Europe, and gained his title of the Great. He wasalso an author, wrote both prose and verse, was very frugal in his expend-iture, and while his nation enjoyed peace, energetically promoted Oliveb Goldsmith, XL. MISCELLANEOUS ADDENDA. Xjlather up the fragments that nothing be lost.—John vi. 12. ARISTOTLE.* RISTOTLE is describ-ed in ancient works asbeing slender in per-son, and having smalleyes and a weak says thatwhen young he hadgreat hesitation in hisspeech. He was ac-customed to dressrichly, and to wearrings on his wore no beard, andhis hair was cut had a large noseand strongly-markedfeatures generally. Fig. 1032.—Aristotle. We give his portrait as it has been handed down to us from ancient times. It isbelieved to be authentic. He had naturally h. weak constitu- ^ Aristotle, perhaps one of the greatest scholars and philosophers ofancient times, was born 884 bc, at Stagira, a Greek colony of Macedonia,whence his appellation of the Stagirite. Both his father, Nichomachus,the private physici
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