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 170
eristicswhich weaken, annul or overcome the apti-tudes shown by the locality or lines traversedor cut. This adverse indication is increasedas the lines are numerous and ill-shapen. Curved Lines show a swerving disposi-tion. Crooked Lines show opposing forceshindering each other. Broken Lines… … Lines—Vertical [3]. Transverse [4]. Grills [5], and cutting each other like net-work, are gen-erally undesirable, suggesting irritation, ex-citability and intensity of the qualities shownby the locality where found. On the mount of Jupiter they suggest atendency to superstitioo, egotism and vanity.…
Palmistry
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