Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 321
sequently clumsy andgross, and so are all those whom society condemns to the gal-leys, or, in other words, to hard labor; but those who studygrace in action, and engage in such employments as requirebodily and mental activity, will acquire moral and intellect-ual refinement with much more facility… … 318 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. interested in language as the means of expressing the most refined and delicate shades of thought and feeling, and will probably do much toward perfecting it. He will wish to free it of all that is unmeaning and cumbersome, for these things are clogs to the wheels of…
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