Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . and he looks enough like the turkey to be saidto have a strong family like-ness to that bird. You maybe sure that he is a goodphysician, that he has verygreat desire to be honoredand to render honor towhom honor is due, andthat he is exceedingly hon-orable. That he is proud,and would make the cow-ardly slaves tremble, andthat he is so ambitious ofesteem that he is the first toset the example,or to do him-self reverence, and that heis not afraid to solicit the honor he is entitled to, can not bedenied; but he endeavors to merit
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . and he looks enough like the turkey to be saidto have a strong family like-ness to that bird. You maybe sure that he is a goodphysician, that he has verygreat desire to be honoredand to render honor towhom honor is due, andthat he is exceedingly hon-orable. That he is proud,and would make the cow-ardly slaves tremble, andthat he is so ambitious ofesteem that he is the first toset the example,or to do him-self reverence, and that heis not afraid to solicit the honor he is entitled to, can not bedenied; but he endeavors to merit the grand object of hisdesires, and that gives him an unusual degree of merit, sothat those who see his good qualities overlook his egotism,and consider his pride and vanity as spots on the sun, thatdiminish nothing from the splendor of his beams. Who couldexpect anything contrary to this in the man who resemblesthe turkey, or, what is very nearly the same thing, the Turk?By wishing to resemble the great and honorable, he paysthem a compliment, and himself 152 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. CHAPTER XXII. The turkey has a rival. The peacock can outvie him insplendor, but not in pride; in vain-glory, but not in ambitionto excel. That the dispositions which are prominent in thepeacock have their seat in the human breast, has been toooften observed to require a formal argument in proof of theassertion. We shall therefore proceed to the comparison ofcertain persons with the peacock sans ceremonie. Whoeverresembles this bird ought to possess qualities worthy of admi-ration, and also an extraordinary degree of the love of admi-ring and of being admired. No one need be told that in thetournure and entire air and manner of this lady there is an imitation of the peacock— the skirt flows behindin an ethereal beautythat is better imaginedthan represented in ink,and that will admit ofno comparison but tothe tail of the peacock;the neck and chest seemglistening with variedhues, as they tu
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