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 288
transferred to figures of gods and men,and fcr v/hich the Apollo of the Vatican itielf is indebted to thefu.blinie forms which the arliit had taken for a model. Thefe faces have a refembknce to thofe of our climate and age :they have the form and features of them; and, notwithftandingthat air of… … 215 lavaters p h ys! oo no m Yi 339 firmnefs of mind, a richnefs of idea, a fuperiority of genius andfaculties, which fix our admiration, and compel us to revere. Fig, I. This man I will not take for a profound thinker; but,without hefitation, I will allow him a poetical and propheticgenius, an…
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