Physiognomy: Ancient and Modern Or Phreno-metoposcopySimpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1900 - 234 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
according ancient angles appear arched bones bony brain breadth bright eyes broad brow capacity cates causing centre cerebellum character cheeks chin CHIROLOGIC colour courage cranium curved denote disposition drooping ears eyebrows eyelids eyes face facial signs FACULTY feature feeling finger flesh fore forehead four temperaments fulness GRAPHOLOGIC hair Havelock Ellis head height hence human impressionable inclined indi indicates inner intellectual Lavater says LAW OF FORM length lines LOIE FULLER Lord Leighton lower lip matter melancholic ment mental METOPOSCOPY middle mind mouth muscles muscular nasal nasal bone nasal septum nature neck ness nose nostrils observed organ organisation outer corner outward passion perpendicular person phalanx PHRENOLOGIC physical physiognomy portion possessed projection prominent proportion relative round rule sanguine septum side signifies skin straight tastes teeth temperament thick tion tiveness upper lip wide width WILSON BARRETT wrinkles writers zygomatic arch
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Página 172 - When the chin decisively indicates good sense, the whole will certainly have the character of discernment and understanding. That chin decisively indicates good sense which is somewhat incurved, or indented in the middle, of which the under part somewhat projects, which is marked with various gradations, incurvations, and lines, and below sinks in somewhat in the middle.
Página 95 - If we take a series of castes in Bengal, Behar, or the North-Western Provinces, and arrange them in the order of the average nasal index, so that the caste with the finest nose shall be at the top, and that with the coarsest at the bottom of the list, it will be found that this order substantially corresponds with the accepted order of social precedence.
Página 105 - ... the spurious imitation of that strength and loftier pride which the wide nostrils in a well-formed nose might indicate. Large noses, in men, are generally good signs : especially, they add emphasis to the good indications of a well-formed head ; but they must not be too fleshy or too lean. If they are long (yet short of being snout-like), they mark, as prolongations of the forehead, the intelligent, observant, and productive nature of the refined mind.
Página 95 - ... Aryans found in possession of the plains of India. So impressed were the Aryans with the shortcomings of their enemies' noses that they often spoke of them as ' the noseless ones,' and their keen perception of the importance of this feature seems almost to anticipate the opinion of Dr.
Página 95 - Thus, it is scarcely a paradox to lay down as a law of the caste organisation in Eastern India that a man's social status varies in inverse ratio to the width of his nose.
Página 112 - RULES, L, MOUTH. ALL disproportion between the upper and under lip, is a sign of folly or wickedness. The wisest and best men have well-proportioned upper and under lips» Very large, though well-proportioned, lips, always denote a gross, sensual, indelicate ; — and sometimes a stupid or wicked man.