Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 126
for physical strength, endur-ance, and unconquerable tena-city. Menschikoif, who com-manded the Russian army in the Crimean war, was of this race,and showed the qualities we have ascribed to the form of whichwe are speaking. The indomitable persistency and cool cour-age with which he held the… … Fig. 127.—The English Gikl. The predominance of the vital or nutritivesystem, occupying the great cavities of thetrunk, tends to give breadth and thickness ofbody, limbs, and head. The most strikingcharacteristic of this constitution is rotundity
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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