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Philosophic chiromancy. Mysteries of the hand revealed and explained: the art of determining, from an inspection of the hands, the person's temperature, appetites, passions, impulses, aspirations, mental endowments, character and tendencies (1879)

Campbell, Robert Allen · Saint Louis, J. W. Campbell & co. · leaf 157

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line (B) suggests one who makes many plansand easily changes them on reasonableground, and hints at one who delights inplans but dislikes the routine or labor of ex-ecution— one who will work willingly, maybeenthusiastically, so long as the brain must beas active as the hand. The break or cut and… … the misplacement occurring at the impulseline shows one whose plans are interferedwith by his emotions and affections — sug-gesting disastrous love affairs, unfortunateintrigue, disgraceful inconstancy, as othertendencies may determine. This line terminating clearly on the mountof Saturn is most…

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