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 489
en teeth ; but this phyfical derangement for the mofl part ac-crues in the time of fieknefs, or from the mixture of fome moraljmperfedion. He who is not careful of his teeth, who does ndt at leafl endea-vour to preferve them in a good ftate, betrays by that very neg-ligence his fentiments of… … 30J lAvat^rs physiognomy. 319 When upon the firft opening of the lips, the gums of the upperrange plainly appear, I generally expect much coldnefs andphlegm. The teeth alone might fupply the fubjed for a largevolume, and yet our painters neglt^l them, or more properlyfpeaking, entirely omit them in…
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