Physiognomy : A practical and scientific treatise. Being a manual of instruction in the knowledge of the human physiognomy and organism, considered chemically, architecturally, and mathematically; embracing the discoveries of located traits, with their relative organs and signs of character, together with the three grand natural divisions of the human face (1881)
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nd 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… … SIR WALTER SCOTT. (Modesty.)Bir Walter Scott inherited, with his great talent, an exceedingly delicate and sensi-tive organism. His TinCommon 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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