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XXV.

HAPPY tranquillity; noble, calm, clear perceptions of the present; a just and pro→ found estimate of the thing considered; artless eloquence, cheerfulness, easy frankness, discretion, verging to inoffensive cunning, astonishing capabilities for business, endear this countenance to every friend. How summarily, how beautifully, do the aspect and attitude denote friendly expression!

XXVI.

A PROFILE rich in talents, uniting much taste with the finest dexterity of art. The ill-cut upper lip excepted, it is impossible for a physiognomonical eye to mistake this speaking shade. None who have studied men would wonder should we write under this, A good musician, miniature painter, or surveyor; or a companion equally pleasant and intelligent. Forehead, nose, chin, and general form, denote a mind capable of high cultivation, and a sense of the beautiful.