Physiognomy. A practical and scientific treatise (1881)
Stanton, Mary Olmstead · San Francisco, Printed for the author: San Francisco news company · leaf 83
d never places a faculty,or sign for a faculty, in an organism without a use and mean-ing. An excessive development of this faculty leads to ego-tism and a feeling of importance; makes its possessor verygrave and ludicrously dignified; he sets great weight uponhis opinions and desires to be treated… … SIB WALTEK SCOTT. (Modesty.)Sir Walter Scott inherited, with his great talent, an exceedingly delicate and sensi-tive organism. His uncommon modesty is remarked by his biographers. THE SIGNS IN THE FACE. 77 Modesty is found in those who possess an uncommon senseof purity of thought and action. One…
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