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 (1887)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York : D.M. Bennett · leaf 138
will be seen that thepowers of the human mind are as innumerable as the san(S»d the sea shore. *Curb, then, flaming dogmatists, your piona wrath ;i Canute-like, ye may sit upon the shore Opposing angry foam with angry froth; But with encroaching wave and growing roar It comes, your sand-placed… … THE HUMAN FACULTIES, AND THE PRINCIPLESUPON WHICH THEY AEE FOUNDED. The word Faculty, as is clearly shewn by its derivation,simply denotes the possession of ease or facility, in a greateror less degree, in performing actions, or in carrying out totheir ultimate results a given class of propensities…
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