Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind (1797)
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801 · London, Sold by H.D. Symonds · leaf 305
have protuberances nei- * ther behind nor before. And undoubtedly this head is that of anideot from the birth ; it is perceptible efpecially from the teeth, andthe relation of thofe in the upper jaw to the chin. e In a word, the form of face d. is not natural, inafmuch as the« two protuberances are… … i.avater8 physiognomy. 151 ftupid. What renders it fo, is the angle which the forehead formswith the bone of the nofe. Thefe are the moil remarkable deformities; to which may beadded, the fculls whofe profile is round or perpendicular; thofewhich are flat before, and too funk or too elevated a-top,…
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