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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... equally impossible to find two minds , as two countenances , which perfectly resemble each other . Considerations like these will be sufficient to make it received as a truth , not requiring farther demonstration , that there must be a ...
... equally impossible to find two minds , as two countenances , which perfectly resemble each other . Considerations like these will be sufficient to make it received as a truth , not requiring farther demonstration , that there must be a ...
Page xii
... equally certain and important to the science of physiognomy . When each apple , each apricot , has a phy- siognomy peculiar to itself ; shall man , the lord of the earth , have none ?. The most simple and inanimate object has its ...
... equally certain and important to the science of physiognomy . When each apple , each apricot , has a phy- siognomy peculiar to itself ; shall man , the lord of the earth , have none ?. The most simple and inanimate object has its ...
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... equally with respect to himself and the objects that sur- round him , did he not become acquainted with their properties and powers , by the aid of their externals ; and had not each object a character peculiar to its nature and essence ...
... equally with respect to himself and the objects that sur- round him , did he not become acquainted with their properties and powers , by the aid of their externals ; and had not each object a character peculiar to its nature and essence ...
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... equally noble , equally majestic with that of man ; and in which so many kinds of life , so many powers , so many virtues of ac- tion and motion , unite as in a central point . With firm step he advances over the earth's surface , and ...
... equally noble , equally majestic with that of man ; and in which so many kinds of life , so many powers , so many virtues of ac- tion and motion , unite as in a central point . With firm step he advances over the earth's surface , and ...
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... equally indispensable , equally unsuppliable ? They possess not , either in mind or body , the smallest thing exactly as thou dost . Each is wholly , and in every part , as individual as thou art . Consider each as if he were single in ...
... equally indispensable , equally unsuppliable ? They possess not , either in mind or body , the smallest thing exactly as thou dost . Each is wholly , and in every part , as individual as thou art . Consider each as if he were single in ...
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