Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . is very important to be well under-stood; for in that branch of Physiognomy much depends oncircumstances. A sweet attractive bind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks,Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of gospel books;—I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.—Spenser. The cheekIs apter than the tongue to tell an errand.—Shakespeare. The cares, and sorrows, and hung
Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . is very important to be well under-stood; for in that branch of Physiognomy much depends oncircumstances. A sweet attractive bind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks,Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of gospel books;—I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.—Spenser. The cheekIs apter than the tongue to tell an errand.—Shakespeare. The cares, and sorrows, and hungerings of the world, change counten-ances as they change hearts; and it is only when those passions sleep, andhave lost their hold forever, that the troubled clouds pass off and leaveheavens surface clear. It is a common thing for the countenances of thedead, even in that fixed and rigid state, to subside into the long-forgottenexpression of sleeping infancj, and settle into the very look of early life; socalm, so peaceful, do they grow again, that those who knew them in theirhappy childhood, kneel by the coffins side iu awe, and see the angel evenupon earth. — COMMON SENSE. *Common Sense is the complement of those convictions or cognitionswhich we receive from nature, which all men jiossess in common, and bywhich they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions; thefaculty of first princiiJes; such ordinary complement of intelligence, thatif a person be deficient therein he is accounted mad or foolish ; nativepractical intelligence; natural prudence; mother wit; tact in behaviour;acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquiredlearning or of speculation.—Sir Wm. Hamilton. In an ingenious and forcible article on the theory ofCommon Sense, Dr. W. B. Carpenter maintains that thisfine mental power consists in the capacity to bring allthe results of pertinent experience to bear upon any questionwhich is submitted to the dec
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