New Physiognomy, Or Signs of Character: As Manifested Through Temperament and External Forms and Especially in "the Human Face Divine." ... With More Than One Thousand IllustrationsAmerican Book Company, 1871 - 768 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 53
Página xxi
... beauty of form . Some faces are agreeable , oth- ers unpleasant . There is an art of knowing the look of good - natur- ed , weak - minded , wick- ed , melancholic , and other persons . " Bacon classes physi- ognomy among the sci- ences ...
... beauty of form . Some faces are agreeable , oth- ers unpleasant . There is an art of knowing the look of good - natur- ed , weak - minded , wick- ed , melancholic , and other persons . " Bacon classes physi- ognomy among the sci- ences ...
Página xxv
... beauty- points out an infallible method of improving our personal appear- ance as well as our characters , and shows conclusively that the former must be reached through the latter . ITS HARMONY WITH PHRENOLOGY , ETC. Physiognomy , as ...
... beauty- points out an infallible method of improving our personal appear- ance as well as our characters , and shows conclusively that the former must be reached through the latter . ITS HARMONY WITH PHRENOLOGY , ETC. Physiognomy , as ...
Página 35
... beauty , nor sensibility , nor spirituality . Trust them not . They can not love nor be beloved . No lineament of the countenance full of truth and power can be found with them . And which are such eyes ? Among others all very ...
... beauty , nor sensibility , nor spirituality . Trust them not . They can not love nor be beloved . No lineament of the countenance full of truth and power can be found with them . And which are such eyes ? Among others all very ...
Página 43
... beauty allure thee to her , nor her understanding deceive thee , nor the confidence she may seem to repose in thee , betray thee . Her mouth will be like her gait ; and her conduct harsh and false like her mouth . She will not thank ...
... beauty allure thee to her , nor her understanding deceive thee , nor the confidence she may seem to repose in thee , betray thee . Her mouth will be like her gait ; and her conduct harsh and false like her mouth . She will not thank ...
Página 47
... Beauty , " etc. , has also given to the world a work of considerable merit , entitled " Physiognomy founded on Physiology . " We shall allow him the same privi- lege as we have given Lavater , letting him speak for himself by means of ...
... Beauty , " etc. , has also given to the world a work of considerable merit , entitled " Physiognomy founded on Physiology . " We shall allow him the same privi- lege as we have given Lavater , letting him speak for himself by means of ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
New Physiognomy: Or, Signs of Character as Manifested Through Temperament ... Samuel Roberts Wells Visualização integral - 1866 |
New Physiognomy, Or, Signs of Character as Manifested Through Temperament ... Samuel Roberts Wells Visualização integral - 1883 |
New Physiognomy, Or Signs of Character: As Manifested Through Temperament ... Samuel Roberts Wells Visualização integral - 1871 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
action ancient angle animals arch artists beard BEARDED WOMEN beauty body bones brain breadth called cates cerebellum cerebrum chapter character chin close color complexion connection corresponding countenance dark Deficiency disposition downward Excess expression eyebrows eyes face faculty feeling fingers foot forehead four temperaments gives grand classes gray Greek hair hand head heart human illustrate indi indicates intellectual Julius Cæsar largely developed Lavater length less LEVATOR ANGULI ORIS ligaments look lower jaw manifested ment mental metacarpal mind Morgan horse mouth muscles muscular natural neck negro nervous ness nose oblique observed Orbicularis Oris ORBICULARIS PALPEBRARUM organs outline passion perament perpendicular persons Phrenology physi physiognomy plantar arch predominance projection prominent races Rectus Internus remarkable Roman round says seen sign large skin teeth temperament temporal bone tendons things tion traits upper lip vital voice woman women wrinkles zygomatic arch
Passagens conhecidas
Página xiv - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Página xiv - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Página iii - O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An...
Página 225 - The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over. When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first.
Página 226 - There are asking eyes, asserting eyes, prowling eyes; and eyes full of fate, — some of good, and some of sinister omen. The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. It must be a victory achieved in the will before it can be signified in the eye.
Página 225 - Eyes are bold as lions, — roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you, in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!
Página xviii - One would say, that the persuasion of their speech is not in what they say, — or, that men do not convince by their argument, — but by their personality, by who they are, and what they said and did heretofore.
Página 758 - We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. The tissue of the Life to be We weave with colors all our own, And in the field of Destiny We reap as we have sown.
Página 230 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of the eye When none but God is near.
Página 300 - They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.