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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 59

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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,… … 45 No. VI. This countenance has been disfi-gured by intemperance, as is appa-rent from every feature; naturenever formed a nose like this;these lips, these wrinkles, are allexpressive of insatiable thirst; theglance of the eye has lost its na-tive energy. The nose and cheeks of a per-son addicted…

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