Essays on Physiognomy: For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind, Volume 3C. Whittingham, 1804 - Facial expression |
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Page 92
... youth , the nose short , and gross , the eyes small and sunken , the cheeks very high , the lower part of the face narrow , the chin long , and prominent , the upper jaw sunken , the teeth long and separated , the eyebrows large ...
... youth , the nose short , and gross , the eyes small and sunken , the cheeks very high , the lower part of the face narrow , the chin long , and prominent , the upper jaw sunken , the teeth long and separated , the eyebrows large ...
Page 151
... youth , irritable and easy to be won . Oh ! pause , consider , throw not thyself , too hastily , into the arms of a friend untried . A gleam of sympathy and resemblance may easily deceive thee . If the man who is thy second self have ...
... youth , irritable and easy to be won . Oh ! pause , consider , throw not thyself , too hastily , into the arms of a friend untried . A gleam of sympathy and resemblance may easily deceive thee . If the man who is thy second self have ...
Page 181
... youth . Rectilinear , and horizontal , are mascu- line . Arched and the horizontal combined , de- note masculine understanding , and feminine kindness . Wild and perplexed denote a correspond- ing mind , unless the hair be soft , and ...
... youth . Rectilinear , and horizontal , are mascu- line . Arched and the horizontal combined , de- note masculine understanding , and feminine kindness . Wild and perplexed denote a correspond- ing mind , unless the hair be soft , and ...
Page 190
... youth ! When , Omniscience , shalt thou stand re- vealed ? 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 ...
... youth ! When , Omniscience , shalt thou stand re- vealed ? 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 ...
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... youth I almost avoided women , and was never in love . For this reason , perhaps I ought to have left this very important part of physiognomy to one much better informed , having myself so little knowledge of the fair sex . Yet might ...
... youth I almost avoided women , and was never in love . For this reason , perhaps I ought to have left this very important part of physiognomy to one much better informed , having myself so little knowledge of the fair sex . Yet might ...
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Page 55 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
Page 51 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 52 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 48 - Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme : 29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation : 30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
Page 55 - But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 44 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Page 45 - The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Page 53 - For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past rinding out!
Page 53 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour...
Page 46 - Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth : 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.