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 355
group before us. Observe the poor forlorn woman,in tlie lower right-hand corner of the picture, with such a woe-begone look. She has lost her babe and her reason at tlio.same time. The poor creature has picked up and dressed abillet of w^ood, and is trying to persuade herself that it is herreal… … Fig. 439.—Childless. the view of a world from which, to the poor desolate one,every ray of brightness seems to have departed. The first figure above, with the bunchof herbs in one hand and tearing his hairwith the other, seems to he exhausted bydyspepsia or other bodily complaint, andhe has an…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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