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 75
itwas of importance for me to know in what attitudes, and in whatpoints of light it is neceffary to exhibit a portrait. The following are the attempts which I have collefled in thisway, and which, by their diverfity, may affift in deciding thequeftion. The reader, in walking over this long gallery,… … i aVA t E r^ ■ P If YSf OG N<5 M?; 2^3 hafmony, and charatflerizes a thinker endowed with tafic andwifdom, a lover of the beautiful, accurate without pedantry, eaiywithout carrying liberty to excefs. The forehead covers great ilores of knowledge, coleded andcultivated w^ith much attention : it…
Physiognomy
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