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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 57

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d applicationand regularity. The lower part ofthe face recedes a little : this is anindication of a man of discretion,modesty, gravity, and reserve. Heis not pleased with a book unlessit is written clearly and methodi-cally : he never rises to poetic in-vention, or overleaps the bounda-ries of… … 43 No. V. Here are indelibly depicted adull and narrow intellect, self-con-ceit, and the grossest ignorance.We may observe that a nose ofthis form, in connexion with thicklips, is always a prognostic of ob-stinacy ; still more if the foreheadbe also perpendicular; and, aboveall, if the occiput,…

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