Physiognomy; or the corresponding analogy between the conformation of the features, and the ruling passions of the mind, tr. [and abridged] by S. Shaw. The title-leaf is a cancel]. |
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... painter or poet born , soar beyond all written rule ! But must he , who possesses feelings and power which are not to be reduced to rule , be pronounced un- scientific ? So , physiognomical truth may , to a certain degree , be defined ...
... painter or poet born , soar beyond all written rule ! But must he , who possesses feelings and power which are not to be reduced to rule , be pronounced un- scientific ? So , physiognomical truth may , to a certain degree , be defined ...
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... painter , as his art too evidently reproves the childish and arrogant pre- judices of those who pretend to disbelieve phy- siognomy . The traveller , the philanthropist , the misanthropist , the lover ( and who not ? ) , all act ...
... painter , as his art too evidently reproves the childish and arrogant pre- judices of those who pretend to disbelieve phy- siognomy . The traveller , the philanthropist , the misanthropist , the lover ( and who not ? ) , all act ...
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... painter acquires , who , if he be not a physiognomist , is nothing . The greatest is that of forming , conducting , and improving the human heart . I shall now say something with respect to the Disadvantages of physiognomy . Methinks I ...
... painter acquires , who , if he be not a physiognomist , is nothing . The greatest is that of forming , conducting , and improving the human heart . I shall now say something with respect to the Disadvantages of physiognomy . Methinks I ...
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... painters , still is it the foundation of their art ; for wherever emendation is visible , there admiration is at an end . Why has no painter yet been pleased to place the blue eye beside the brown one ? Yet , absurd as this would be ...
... painters , still is it the foundation of their art ; for wherever emendation is visible , there admiration is at an end . Why has no painter yet been pleased to place the blue eye beside the brown one ? Yet , absurd as this would be ...
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... Painters and designers , what shall I say that may induce you to study this sacred organ , in all its beauteous expressions , all its harmony and proportion ? Take plaster impressions of characteristic mouths , of the living and the ...
... Painters and designers , what shall I say that may induce you to study this sacred organ , in all its beauteous expressions , all its harmony and proportion ? Take plaster impressions of characteristic mouths , of the living and the ...
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