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 228
call science a cheat and nature an impostor, and Lavater a dupe and a donkey. Show me a thief w^ith the nose of Algernon Sydney; show me an empty fop, if there be any yet extant, with the nose of Lord Ba-con ; or some soft poltroon with the profile of Philip the Bold, or Elliott, the hero of… … Fig. 320.—Algernon Sydney. 999 ABOUT NOSES a foot-ball, and do wliat you like with its special honest-amentum. PHOTOGRAPHED NOSES. Or if you have any doubts of the accuracy of these por-traits ; if you say that painters are apt to flatter, and so admitthe whole argument when you allow that to paint…
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