Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 223
dividual (see next page) seems to us tohave no small resemblance to a duck (a bird that in its essen-tial points differs very little from the goose); and that he waslooked upon by his grandmother as a duck, while his fatherwas regarded as a goosey, is quite an argument in favor ofour science. But… … then. The Russians are equally up to snuff, and it wasvery gooselike to set Moscow on fire to save it from the French— gooselike in two senses, for it required a foolish noddle to suggest the idea, and itturned out to be a capi-tal expedient. Many abright idea has its originin a gooses brain —…
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