pable of command, can rule, act, overcome, destroy. Rectilinear noses may be called the key-stone between the two extremes. They equally act and suffer with power and tranquillity.

Boerhaave, Socrates, Lairesse, had, more or less, ugly noses, and yet were great men ; but their character was that of gentleness and patience.

I have never yet seen a nose with a broad back, whether arched or rectilinear, that did not appertain to an extraordinary man. We may examine thousands of countenances, and numbers of portraits, of superior men, before we find such a one.

These noses were possessed, more or less, by Raynal, Faustus Socinus, Swift, Cæsar Borgia, Clepzecker, Anthony Pagi, John Charles von Enkenberg (a man of Herculean strength) Paul Sarpi, Peter de Medicis, Francis Caracci, Cassini, Lucas van Leyden, Titian.

There are also noses that are not broad backed, but small near the forehead, of extraordinary power; but their power is rather elastic and momentary than productive.

The Tartars, generally, have flat, indented, noses; the Negroes broad, and the Jews, hawk noses. The noses of Englishmen are

seldom pointed, but generally round. If we may judge from their portraits, the Dutch seldom have handsome or significant noses. The nose of the Italian is large and energetic. The great men of France, in my opinion, have the characteristic of their greatness, generally, in the nose: to prove which examine the collections of portraits by Perrault and Morin.

Small nostrils are usually an indubitable sign of unenterprising timidity. The open, breathing nostril, is as certain a token of sensibility, which may easily degenerate into sensuality.

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THE MOUTH AND LIPS.

WHATEVER is in the mind is communicated to the mouth.

How full of character is the mouth, whether at rest or speaking, by its infinite motions! Who can express its eloquence, even when silent!

Whoever internally feels the worth of this member, so different from every other member, so inseparable, so not to be defined, so simple, yet so various; whoever, I say, knows and feels this worth, will speak and act with divine wisdom. Oh! wherefore can I only, imperfectly, and tremblingly, declare all the honours of the mouth; the chief seat of wisdom and folly, power and debility, virtue and vice, beauty and deformity, of the human mind; the seat of all love, all hatred, all sincerity, all falsehood, all humility, all pride, all dissimulation, and all truth!

Oh! with what adoration would I speak, and be silent, were I a more perfect man!

Oh discordant, degraded, humanity! Oh mournful secret of my misinformed youth! When, Omniscience, shalt thou stand revealed? Unworthy as I am, yet do I adore. Yet worthy I shall be; worthy as the nature of man will permit; for he who created me gave me a mouth to glorify him.

Oh Eternal Life!-How shall it be with me, what hallelujahs shall be mine, when I behold the mouth of the Godhead in the countenance of the Saviour!-I also have a mouth, an image of that which in him I adore; him can I name who gave it me.Oh Eternal Life, what joys are thine, though but in imagination!

What shall I say, painters and designers, 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 dead; draw after, attentively examine them, learn, observe, continue day after day to study one

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only; and, having perfectly studied that, you will have studied many.-Oh! pardon me, heart is oppressed. Among ten or twenty draughtsmen, to whom for three years I have preached, whom I have instructed, have drawn examples for, not one have I found who felt as he ought to feel, saw what was to be seen, or could represent that which was evident.-What can I hope?

I expect every thing from a collection of characteristic plaster impressions, which might so easily be made, were such a collection only once formed-But who can say whether such observations might not declare too much? The human machine may be incapable of suffering to be thus analyzed: man, perhaps, might not endure such close inspection; and, therefore, having eyes, he sees not. I speak it with tears, and why I weep thou knowest who with me enquirest into the worth of man.-And you weaker, yet candid, though on this occasion insensible readers, pardon me.

Distinguish in each mouth (a) the upper lip, singly; (b) the under lip, the same; (c) the line formed by the union of both, when