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 413
er upon the operative.The sawyer, smith, cobbler, and all those employed inmechanical operations of a regular, measured, motive nature,will walk with a steady, measured step, and pendulatetheir arms in the same manner; so impressed has hisnature become with the regularity of the mechanicalmotion… … ^^ iliil motion. Ask him the hour, and at any time he will answeryou at once, and seldom make a mistake of more than fiveor ten minutes. The famous self-made engineer, GeorgeStephenson, of Killingworth, was always so sure of thetune that he would boldly assert that such and such aclock or watch was…
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