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Essays on the anatomy and philosophy of expression (1893)

Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842 · London : G. Bell · leaf 83

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65 NATIONAL PECULIARITIES. by the grossness of form, the muscular development and the proportions indicative of activity. But there is neither freedom nor grace of movement in the position of the body or limbs, nor in their proportions or contour. In short, we have the Apollo and Marsyas exhibiting… … NATIONAL PECULIARITIES IX THE FORM OF THE HEAD. Sir David V\ ilkie, whose loss we have had so lately to deplore, was one of my earliest pupils, having at- tended a course of my lectures on anatomy, as connected with design. On returning from the Continent in August, 1840, I found him preparing for…

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