Comparative Physiognomy; Or, Resemblances Between Men and AnimalsWiddleton, 1866 - 334 páginas Generally the brain & face are harmonious, but that always the former is subservient to the latter. The divining character by the skull is subordinate to the practical, everyday reading to which the face is appropriated. Illustrated by 300 engravings. Partial Contents: heads & faces; resemblances of human beings to beasts & birds; Resemblances of: Germans to lions; Prussians to cats; human beings to apes; Arabs to camels; Englishmen to bulls; Italians to horses; Yankees to bears; Russians to geese; Frenchmen to frogs & alligators; certain persons to eagles, owls, ostriches, rat, hare, vultures, pigeons, parrots & mockingbirds. |
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Comparative Physiognomy: Or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals James W. Redfield Visualização integral - 1852 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration affection ambition animal appearance appetite Arab artist Aztec bear beast beauty bird blow-fly body Bull called camel CHAPTER character Chinese cock correspond countenance courage cowardice cowardly cruel cruelty degree disposition dress everything exhibited expression eyes face faculties feeling fermented food fond French Frenchman frog goat goose gratified grizzly bear head hence honor horse human idea inclined Indian indicates individual Insensibility instinct Irish Irishman Jenny Lind John Bull latter line of beauty lion live look manner mind Nature negro ness never noble nose object observed opposite ostrich parental love parrot passion peacock peculiar perfect Persians person who resembles perversion physiognomy polar bear portrait pride qualities reason refinement render represented resem rhinoceros ridiculous self-love sense sheep soul speaking spirit stork tail taste things tion traits truth Turk turkey Vitellius words Yankee
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Página 4 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Página 76 - His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Página 205 - She went off a second time as before ; and having crawled a few paces, looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. But still her cubs not rising to follow her, she returned to them again, and with signs of inexpressible fondness went round one, and round the other, pawing them and moaning.
Página 19 - For he a rope of sand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist; And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull That's empty when the moon is full; 160 Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.
Página 333 - And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of .the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Página 242 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Página 170 - ... together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst of these several bowls filled with gravy ; in vain I tried to hold, in imitation of my host, this substitute for a fork, between the thumb and the two first fingers of the right hand ; for the chopsticks slipped aside every moment, leaving behind them the unhappy little morsel which I coveted.
Página 204 - While the Carcase frigate, which went out some years ago to make discoveries towards the North Pole, was locked in the ice, early one morning the man at the mast-head gave notice that three bears were making their way very fast over the frozen ocean, and were directing their course towards the ship. They had, no doubt, been invited by the scent of some blubber of a...
Página 205 - As she -was carrying away the last piece, they levelled their muskets at the cubs, and shot them both dead : and in her retreat, they wounded the dam, but not mortally. "It would have drawn tears of pity from any but unfeeling minds, to have marked the affectionate concern manifested by this poor beast, in the last moments of her expiring young.
Página 175 - A few days of this fearful luxury, when taken to excess, will give a pallid and haggard look to the face ; and a few months, or even weeks, will change the strong and healthy man into little better than an idiot skeleton.