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 222
k well, I befeech you, theword ifolated. If I am aflced what I underftand by an idiot^ I an-fwcr, that it is an ifolated perfon, who ads without having an ob-je<ft ; a man whofe condu6l wants both principle and connexion,who propcfes to himfeif nothing like an end, in what he does.It lijiupidity… … 141 LAVATErs PHYSlCGiiOMY. I/I «ur geftures, will correfpond to it, and the more will we meritthe approbation and efteem of thofe who obferve us. 2. The fame nullity, the fatae vacancy, the fame blunted cu-riofity, chara61erize this figure alfo. This man is attached to noobjeft whatever; and, from…
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