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"I know absolutely nothing of this melancholy business of Bradley. And if I did, alas! what could [eil I say? Bradley is only a detail; his agony is lost in the great universal agony. Civilisation is on a rocking-horse at present. England has re-established exe cution by the musket, Russia has re-introduced tor ture, Germany banditism. At Paris there is crush ing of the political conscience, the literary conscience, the philosophical conscience. The French guillotine is working in a manner to pique the honour of the English gibbet. Everywhere progress is adjournedeverywhere liberty is re-bound-everywhere the ideal Is insulted-everywhere reaction prospers under it various names of good order, good taste, good sense, good laws, &c.-words which are lies. Jersey, the ittle island, was in advance of great nations. She was free, honest, intelligent, and humane. It appear hat Jersey, seeing that all the world is going back ard, thinks also of going back. Paris decapitated hilippe, Jersey is going to hang Bradley-rivalry in e inverse sense of progress. Jersey coincided with ogress, Jersey is going to coincide with reaction. ngust the 11th-fête day in the island-they are ing to strangle a man! Jersey maintains her right have, like a king of Prussia or an emperor of ssia, her fit of ferocity. O, poor little corner of earth! What a belial of God who has done so ch for that charming land! What ingratitude wards that soft, serene, and bountiful nature! A ows at Jersey! Alas, those who are happy should merciful. I love Jersey; I am afflicted."

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OR,

THE CORRESPONDING ANALOGY BETWEEN THE
CONFORMATION OF THE FEATURES

AND THE

RULING PASSIONS OF THE MIND:

BEING

A COMPLETE EPITOME OF THE ORIGINAL WORK

OF

J. C. LAVATER.

New Edition.-Illustrated.

"Physiognomy is reading the handwriting of nature upon the human

countenance."

LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG.
1866.

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