Essays on Physiognomy: For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind, Volume 3C. Whittingham, 1804 |
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... Persons to be avoided .... Ambiguous characters Thinkers ....... Voluptuaries ....... Harsh characters ........ Characters to be avoided . Caution ..... Discordant characters Manly character ......... On the lines of animality Page ...
... Persons to be avoided .... Ambiguous characters Thinkers ....... Voluptuaries ....... Harsh characters ........ Characters to be avoided . Caution ..... Discordant characters Manly character ......... On the lines of animality Page ...
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... persons , have perpendicular foreheads . " The perpendicu- lar always denotes coldness , inactivity , na- rowness ; hence firmness , fortitude , pertina- city , obstinacy , and enthusiasm , may be there . Absolute perpendicularity , and ...
... persons , have perpendicular foreheads . " The perpendicu- lar always denotes coldness , inactivity , na- rowness ; hence firmness , fortitude , pertina- city , obstinacy , and enthusiasm , may be there . Absolute perpendicularity , and ...
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... persons of the greatest learning , and who might be expected to enlarge the boun- daries of human understanding , the most superficial judgments ! How much is that great æra to be wished when the knowledge of man shall become a part ...
... persons of the greatest learning , and who might be expected to enlarge the boun- daries of human understanding , the most superficial judgments ! How much is that great æra to be wished when the knowledge of man shall become a part ...
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... persons . " - ( Granted ; but the danger will be much less if he endeavour to employ his quick sensations in determinate signs ; if he be able to pourtray the general tokens of certain powers , sensations and pas- sions ; and if his ...
... persons . " - ( Granted ; but the danger will be much less if he endeavour to employ his quick sensations in determinate signs ; if he be able to pourtray the general tokens of certain powers , sensations and pas- sions ; and if his ...
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... person for whom it was painted , seen in a camera obscura . ) 7 . I once asked a friend , " How does it hap- pen that artful and subtle people always have one or both eyes rather closed ? " " Because they are feeble , " answered he ...
... person for whom it was painted , seen in a camera obscura . ) 7 . I once asked a friend , " How does it hap- pen that artful and subtle people always have one or both eyes rather closed ? " " Because they are feeble , " answered he ...
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Page 55 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
Page 51 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 52 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 48 - Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme : 29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation : 30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
Page 55 - But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 44 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Page 45 - The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Page 53 - For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past rinding out!
Page 53 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour...
Page 46 - Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth : 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.