Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 21
ctice of virtue. The Greek authors on this subject, whose writings havebeen preserved, were collected and published at Altenburgh,Germany, in 1780, under the title of Physiognomise VeteresScriptores GraBci. Among the Romans, physiognomy had its professors whodisgraced it by connecting it with… … INTKODUCTION. XV of men by observing their bodily characters—the characterof the face, the eyes, and the forehead. The remark of JuliusCaesar on the physiognomy of Cassius and Antony is wellknown,* and we have a very striking physiognomical descrip-tion of the Emperor Tiberius by Suetonius. During…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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