Physiognomy illustrated; or, nature's revelations of character. A description of the mental, moral, and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance (1887)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York, Murray Hill Publishing Company · leaf 191
CIPLES. strength reposing in the muscles, and width of form bespeak-ing breadth of mind, as body and mind bear due proportionto each other. CONTEATIYENESS.—CONTRARINESS. THIS QUALITY, OR FACULTY, IN HUMAN BEINGS, IS THATWHICH GIVES THE DISPOSITION TO ASSUME THE OPPOSITE,AND IN ANIMALS, TO ACT… … Contrativeness very Large—Napoleon I. Copied from a cast takenfrom his head after death. Contrativeness occupies the same platform with that ofVoluntativeness, with this difference, that the former is THE FACULTIES, THEIR SIGNS AND PRINCIPLES. 163 more moderate in action, and more considerate than…
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