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New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." (1889)

Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York : Fowler & Wells · leaf 153

An illustration from New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine.", 1889, leaf 153 — Eyebrow.— Theforehead, Sir Charles Bell says, ismore than any other part character-istic of the human countenance. Itis the seat of thought, a tablet whereevery emotion is distinctly impress-ed ; and the eyebrow is the movabletype for this fair page. Pliny says:Frons hominis tristitice,… … Fig. IGG. MtrSCLES OF THE EtEBROW. MUbCLES OF THE EYE 147 1. The Occipito frontalis (fiir. IOC, A) arises in a web offibers from the back of tlie skull, descends over the forehead,and is inserted into the eyebrow, wheie it mingles its hberswith those of the orbicularis palpebrarinn. Its action is…

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