Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustrated. A description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance (1879)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York, D.M. Bennett, Liberal and Scientific Publishing House · leaf 205
IGNS AND PRINCIPLES. signs, it is simply the superabundance of lon^ and oftindulged habit. SONIDIFFUSITIVENESS.—CAPACITY TO SING. THE CAPACITY OF PRODUCING OR MAKING A SOUND ORMUSICAL TONE WITH THE MOUTH—VOCIFERATIVENESS. A full throat, large tliorax, open nostrils, and protrudinglips, ivith good… … Sonidiffusitiveness Small—An Irishpeasant, who could not sound a,note correctly. Sonidiffusitiveness Large—ParepaKosa, a celebrated singer. The mouth being the only point of egress throughoutthe system from which it is possible to give forth soundsof a musical character, it naturally follows that…
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