Physiognomy. A practical and scientific treatise (1881)
Stanton, Mary Olmstead · San Francisco, Printed for the author: San Francisco news company · leaf 91
admirably adapted to thepreservation of the body, presiding, as it does, over all thefunctions of digestion, and guarding the avenues of approachto the stomach by its keenness of scent, which soon detectsqualities of food unsuited to the sustentation of the body.Short noses are not so efficient in… … EDMUND SPENSEE. (Cautiousness.) Cautiousness is one of the leading signs of character in the countenance of thisportrait of Spenser, an English poet of the sixteenth century. His biographies attestthat he was exceedingly cautious, almost to timidity. Delicacy, sensitiveness, andshyness are often…
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