Outlines of a New System of PhysiognomyRedfield, 1849 - 96 páginas |
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Página 32 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Página 2 - Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, BY JS REDFIELD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.
Página 31 - My manors, halls, and bowers shall still Be open, at my sovereign's will, To each one whom he lists, howe'er Unmeet to be the owner's peer. My castles are my king's alone, From turret to foundation-stone; The hand of Douglas is his own, And never shall in friendly grasp The hand of such as Marmion clasp.
Página 4 - I once happened to see a criminal condemned to the wheel, who, with satanic wickedness, had murdered his benefactor, and who yet had the benevolent and open countenance of an angel of Guido. It is not impossible to discover the head of a Regulus among guilty criminals, or of a vestal in the house of correction.
Página 26 - The faculty manifests itself chiefly in embracing and kissing, and is indicated not only by the breadth of this part of the chin, but by the breadth and fullness of the red part of the lips. In all these respects the negro is very remarkable, and woman more than man. It is hence rather...
Página 21 - There is hardly any person to be found so deficient in a talent for physiognomy, unless it be one with such a nose as this, as not to perceive that the grand fault of this face is the nose, and that the fault in the nose is a • IN PHYSIOGNOMY.
Página 13 - ... as we see in the accompanying engraving. When a person touches the end of his nose in this manner, he points out the sign of suspicion, without being aware that he is a physiognomist. Such a nose indicates a person of quick apprehension, one too inclined to suspect the motives and intentions of others, and too apprehensive of dangers and difficulties.
Página 36 - One who has this sign large likes to have good fences around his premises, is fond of stone walls and fortifications, and, if a general or a public man, will pay great attention to national defences. The sign is...
Página 39 - Irish, who sliow but little of the faculty in their motions, and who care little for the accomplishment of dancing. It is large in the French and Italians, and particularly large in the Spanish, who in their gait are the most graceful people in the world, and who above all others exhibit wave-motion in their dances. The actors in the well-known " Spanish dance'1 appear like a moving sea...
Página 17 - This sign, when large, makes the nose appear as if it were divided at the end into lateral halves, and indicates a person who has a strong perception of the fitness and appropriateness of things...