Practical palmistry : a reliable treatise on the art of character reading and methods of recalling past and foretelling future events upon examination of the hand (1904)
Frith, Henry, 1840- · Philadelphia : Penn Publishing · leaf 44
But for the real worldly work? No! They areunable to devote themselves to hard labor, theymake things, they delight in beauty, are notsensual; imaginative, the long, pointed fingerssearching as it were, the universe for the ideal themind has imagined. The vague, the dreamy, theunpractical, the… … IV.—THE ELEMENTARY HAND Cbtrognoms 39 form of the fingers, their thickness and texture,must be weighed. An artistic (hard) hand may in-dicate a soldier—an officer whose characteristicshave made him highly esteemed and liked, yet in thefield he is well fitted to command by reason of hislarge thumb…
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