Englishman looks thus, no Frenchman, no Italian, and, certainly, no citizen of Basil, or Bern. The love of labour, innocent benevolence, tender irritability, and strength of imagination, are some of the ideas read in this short-sighted, and, apparently, enquiring eye, which seems to speak what all eyes easily understand. XL. GOOD nature excepted, I find but few traces here that appertain to a Zurich countenance in particular, but many which are common to the Swiss nation. Firmness, fidelity, and industry, are here as much as they can be in a phlegmatic-sanguine temperament. Not an inventive mind, but an imitative and faithful copyist; not the eye of exalted and original genius, but of an accurate observer; no governing nose, but a mouth expressive of fidelity, and benevolent worth. XLI. ANOTHER most worthy, industrious, and frank countenance of Zurich; the elder brother of the foregoing, but with much more of the character of the inhabitants, especially in the nose and mouth. We have |