Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 417
Fi?. 519.—Presi: Lincoln. 410 NATIONAL TYPES. important practical bearings. In the first place, there is ob-servable in us a decrease of the cellular tissues and a shrink-ing of the muscles, causing us to exhibit less plumpness ofbody than the European stocks from which we are descended.Bone seems… … Fig. 520.—Coknelius Vandekbilt. abound in solids more than in fluids, they think we are with-ering—drying up, root and branch, and shall perchance beblown away by some strong north wind. They had betternot count too surely upon that. If any of our Europeancousins have serious doubts about our…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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