ten unremarked trait will, probably, explain what appears to you so enigmatical.

"But will not something creep into the commentary which never was in the text?"

(This may, but ought not to, happen. I will, also, grant that a man with a good countenance may act like a rogue; but, in the first place, at such a moment, his countenance will not appear good; and, in the next, he will infinitely oftener act like a man of worth.)

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Ought we from a known character to draw conclusions concerning one unknown? ---Or, is it easy to discover what that being is who wanders in darkness, and dwells in the house of contradiction; who is one creature to-day, and to-morrow the very reverse? For how seldom do we find a man

"Qui

Qualis ab initio processerit et sibi constet?"

(How true, how important is this! How necessary a beacon to warn and terrify the physiognomist!)

"What should we think of Augustus, if we were only acquainted with his conduct to Cinna; or of Cicero, if we knew him only from his consulate? How gigantic rises Elizabeth among queens, yet how little, how mean was the superannuated coquette !

James II. a bold general and a cowardly king! Monk the revenger of monarchs, the slave of his wife! Algernon Sidney and Russel, patriots worthy Rome, sold to France! Bacon the father of wisdom, a bribed judge! -Such discoveries make us shudder at the aspect of man, and shake off friends and intimates like coals of fire from the hand.

"When such cameleon minds can be at one moment great, at another contemptible, and yet not alter their form, what can that form say?"

(Their form shews what they may, what they ought to be; and their aspect, in the moment of action, what they are. Their countenance shews their power, and their aspect the application of their power. expression of their littleness may probably be like the spots of the sun, invisible to the naked eye.)

The

"Is not our judgment tinged by that medium through which we are accustomed to look?"-(Oh yes, yes, yes!)" Smellfungus views all objects through a blackened glass; another through a prism. Many contemplate virtue through a diminishing, and vice through a magnifying, medium.' (How excellently expressed!)

"A work by Swift, on physiognomy,

would certainly have been very different from that of Lavater.

"National physiognomy is still a large uncultivated field. The families of the four classes of the race of Adam from the Esquimaux to the Greeks. In Europe—In Germany, alone, what varieties are there which can escape no observer! Heads bearing the stamp of the form of government, which ever will influence education; republican haughtiness, proud of its laws; the pride of the slave who feels pride because he has the power of inflicting the scourges he has received; Greeks under Pericles, and under Hassan Pacha; Romans, in a state of freedom, governed by emperors, and governed by popes; Englishmen under Henry VIII. and Cromwell!-How have I been struck by the portraits of Hampden, Pym, and Vane. Hancock and Lord North!—All produce varieties of beauty, according to the different nations."

(I cannot express how much I am indebted to the author of this spirited and energetic essay. How worthy an act was it in him whom I had unintentionally offended, concerning whom I had published a judgment far from sufficiently noble, to send me this essay, with liberty to make what

use of it I pleased! In such a manner, in such a spirit, may informations, corrections, or doubts, be ever conveyed to me!-Shall I need to apologize for having inserted it? Or, rather, will not most of my readers say, give us more such.)

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QUOTATIONS FROM HUART.

1.

"SOME are wise and appear not to be so; others appear wise and are not so: some, again, are not, and appear not to be wise; and others are wise, and also appear to be wise."

(A touchstone for many countenances.)

2.

"The son is often brought in debtor to the great understanding of the father."

3.

"Wisdom in infancy denotes folly in manhood."

4.

“No aid can make those bring forth who are not pregnant."

(Expect not, therefore, fruit where seed has not been sown. How advantageous, how important, would physiognomy become, were it, by being acquainted with every sign of intellectual and moral pregnancy, enabled to render aid to all the pregnant, and to the pregnant only!)

5.

"The external form of the head is what it ought to be, when it resembles a hollow globe slightly compressed at the sides, with a small protuberance at the forehead, and back of the head. A very flat forehead, or a sudden descent at the back of the head, are no good tokens of understanding."

(Notwithstanding the compressure, the profile of such a head would be more circular than oval. The profile of a good head ought to form a circle combined only when with the nose; therefore without the nose, it approaches much more to the oval than the circular. "A very flat forehead," says our author, “is no sign of good understanding." True, if the flatness resembles that of the ox. But I have seen perfectly flat