Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . this might poflibly be the profile of an ideot. No perfon will be difpofed to contradict us, when we afnrm,That the arch of this beautiful forehead, that the fharp bone ofthis eye, that the linking on the iide of the eye, that the contourof this nofe> that this rapid transition from the nofe to the lip, thatthe elevation and form of the two lips, that the harmony of thiswhole, indicate a judicious man, who mull look through ten thou-fand, before he can find his equal. The phyfionomy is true, and its truth is
Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . this might poflibly be the profile of an ideot. No perfon will be difpofed to contradict us, when we afnrm,That the arch of this beautiful forehead, that the fharp bone ofthis eye, that the linking on the iide of the eye, that the contourof this nofe> that this rapid transition from the nofe to the lip, thatthe elevation and form of the two lips, that the harmony of thiswhole, indicate a judicious man, who mull look through ten thou-fand, before he can find his equal. The phyfionomy is true, and its truth is inconteftable. Afingle exterior line is clearly pofTeiTed of infinite expreffton ; andif one line fays fo much, what mull be the exprefhve power of athoufand, ail uniting in the fame face, which we are able to retrace,obferve, and ftudy in fo many different points of view ? K. six silhouettes marked BY lines.—See the Plates* I here place, in , fix fiihouettes entirely different, Inorder to render this difference the more fenfible, I have marked them PaqeiBi. UK lavaters physiognomy; 183 them by lines, which fix the relation of the principal parts of th:profile, and the diverfity of their pofuion. I fuppofe that this method will fatisfy fuch of my readers asfeek for inftruclion rather than amufement; it will facilitate theirobfervations, and will give them an idea of the pofiibility of oneday reducing the fcience of phyiionomies to certain principles, atleafl in part. In how many different points of view, might one conlider theiimple profile drawn in filhouette ? How many varieties are fur-nifhed by the lines which interfect the profiles of the oppofitePlates—varieties to which generally little or no attention is paid! Firft, I fee in them the extent of the nine horizontal fe£tionswhich I have adopted, and which are diftinguifhable even in facesof equal fize. In the fecond place, the unequal breadth, or the diverfity of thefurface from the extremity of th
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