Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 119
ll he is notquarrelsome. Among the twelve hundred young men at Ox-ford a duel was never known to take place. His self-posses-sion is not pugnacity; he does not wish to injure others —he is thinking only of himself! This is a description to thevery life. Even the mad bull has no animosity, or desire… … skin and wrinkles of the neck anddignitv and old age; the lengthof the back-bone; the longtail, with the tuft at the endof it; the brawny extremitiesand the matchless strength;the extraordinary size andthickness of the neck; and,in the bison, which is a kindof ox, the shaggy mane whichcovers it —…
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