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 106
the Plate, Whether this profile be a flrong likenefs, I very much doubt jbiit however far it may be from the original, I maintain that itcannot have been defigKcd after a toesn or ordinary man. The outline of this fort of heads, it is extremely difficult to hitwith perfect accuracy 5 but an anift… … T(>« lavaters physioqnomv; i^i v/ho loves and purfues the beautiful, who attaches himfelf to itfrom talle. I do not think, however, he poffelles very exquifitefenfibility; and, fuch as he is in this portrait, I fhould be tempfedto afiert, that he feels according to reafon; that he is the…
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