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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 190

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day old. Obferve this forehead advancing-a-top,and the exceffive fize of the fltull, vvhich is not yet clofed-Some of the parts are too ilrongly marked: this is a mouthof three months old, and the eye is at leafl fix. Z, Reprefents the fame, a lad in his tenth year ; but the eyeh too feeble, and… … 23 7 3;,A.VATER^S PHYSIOGNjOMT. I4I 4« Here he is arrived at manhood. If, however, at the tenth.year, the line of the forehead is fo curved as in 2, it will have^neither at thirty, nor at fourfcore, the perpendicularity of 4. In,other refpe£ts, this phyfionomy is pf lingular propriety anddignity.…

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