The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy : to which is added, an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta : embellished with 44 copperplate heads (1817)
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801, Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615. De humana physiognomonia. English. Selections, Van Winkle and Wiley, printer · New-York : Published by Van Winkle & Wiley · leaf 163
we may recognisethe face of a gay and sprightlyman; repartee and epigram arehis arms, and he is capable ofwielding them with spirit and ef-fect. The mouth, with a littlehollow in the middle of the underlip, is almost always an indicationof such a character, which is alsodiscoverable by the interval… … 97 No. XXXII. Here are collected the featuresof a character of extraordinarymelancholy, in which a discontent-ed and sluggish disposition is per-ceptible. The blue eyes andsmall eyebrows, and the thicknessof the lips, mark the intermixtureof a phlegmatic tint: the elonga-tion of the nose, as well…
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