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Essays on Physiognomy: For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of ... - Page 245
by Johann Caspar Lavater - 1804
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Essays on Physiognomy: For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of ...

Johann Caspar Lavater - Physiognomy - 1800 - 334 pages
...Boucher. " I once happened to fee a criminal condemned to the wheel, who, with fatanic wickednsfs, had murdered his benefactor, and who yet had the benevolent...and open countenance of an angel of Guido. It is not impoffible to difcover the head of a Regulus among guilty criminals, or of a veftal in the houfe of...
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The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 5

William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...their noses, eyes, foreheads and chins. M. Slurtz declared to Lavater that he " once happened to see a criminal condemned to the wheel, who, with satanic...benevolent, and open countenance of an angel of Guido. It if not impossible, adds this gentlemen, to discover the head of a Regiilus among guilty criminals,...
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The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 5

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 684 pages
...once happened to see a criminal condemned to the wheel, who, with salanic wickedness, had murdered hU benefactor, and who yet had the benevolent, and open countenance of an angel, of Guido. It i» not impossible, adds this gentlemen, to discover the head of a Regulus among guilty criminals,...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 10

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 378 pages
...their noses, eyes, foreheads, and chins. M. Sturtz declared to Lavater, that he " once happened to see a criminal condemned to the wheel, who, with satanic...countenance of an angel of Guido. It is not impossible, adds this gentleman, to discover the head of a Regulus among guilty criminals, or of a vestal in the...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 10

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 376 pages
...their noses, eyes, foreheads, and chins. M. Sturtz declared to Lavater, that he " once happened to see a criminal condemned to the wheel, who, with satanic...countenance of an angel of Guido. It is not impossible, adds this gentleman, to discover the head of a Regulus among guilty criminals, or of a vestal in the...
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Physiognomy

Johann Caspar Lavater - 1826 - 380 pages
...of his portrait, why I have never been pleased with the works of Boucher. " I once happened to see a criminal condemned to the wheel, who, with satanic...criminals, or of a vestal in the house of correction." I can confirm this from experience. Far be contradiction from me on this subject. But such vicious...
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Outlines of a New System of Physiognomy

James W. Redfield - Facial expression - 1849 - 110 pages
...well believe that M. Sturtz spoke truth when he declared to Lavater lhat he " once happened to see a criminal condemned to the wheel, who, with satanic...benevolent and open countenance of an angel of Guido ;" but we do not believe that such a person had the countenance of an angel of heaven. It might be...
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Physiognomy, Or, The Corresponding Analogy Between the Conformation of the ...

Johann Caspar Lavater - Physiognomy - 1866 - 356 pages
...of his portrait, why I have never been pleased with the works of Boucher. " I once happened to see a criminal condemned to the wheel, who with satanic wickedness had murdered his L benefactor, and who yet had- the benevolent and open countenance of an angel of Guido. It is not...
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Essays on Physiognomy

Johann Caspar Lavater - Physiognomy - 1878 - 820 pages
...of the paintings of Boucher were at all to my taste. I could not contemplate one of them con amare, and his countenance had the same effect. I can now...the benevolent and open countenance of an angel of Guiclo. It is not impossible to discover the head of a Regulus among guilty criminals, or of a vestal...
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