A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . iscovered, a man eitherarrests his action entirely, or changesit to something altogether direction of his eyes, and the,action of his head, are also, undersimilar circumstances, quite eyes, instead of moving freelyfrom object to object, become fixed,and the head is thrown back, if be-fore hanging down on the breast. As an example ofthese effects, M. Engel refers to a scene in a play ofLessing, in which an old gentleman is very muchpuzzled how to ma
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . iscovered, a man eitherarrests his action entirely, or changesit to something altogether direction of his eyes, and the,action of his head, are also, undersimilar circumstances, quite eyes, instead of moving freelyfrom object to object, become fixed,and the head is thrown back, if be-fore hanging down on the breast. As an example ofthese effects, M. Engel refers to a scene in a play ofLessing, in which an old gentleman is very muchpuzzled how to ma-nage, in a situa-tion of great diffi-culty and the commence-ment of his delibe-rations he is repre-sented as in Fig. 109,and in the next pe-riod of them, as inFig. 110. These examplesare introduced byM. Engel to illus-trate his analogous gestures, but they may also bevery well applied to illustrate the complex, significantgestures, which are the present subject of description which he gives of melancholy, con-trasted with anxiety, is, throughout, correct, and fullof nice discrimination.
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