Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind (1797) (14595776778)

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Title: Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801
Subjects: Physiognomy
Publisher: London, Sold by H.D. Symonds
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons



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be of more fervice than thegolden vefTel, yet it mud ever continue a wooden vefTeL Neithermeditation, nor the labours of tuition, nor any activity can bellowon us another nature. To dream of drawing from the violin thefound of the flute, or the found of the drum from the trumpet,would be perfect infanity -, the fact however is, that the violintuned in a particular way, and exercifed by the touch of a certainplayer, will accumulate founds in infinite degrees of variation;but thefe will not ever be the founds of a flute : exactly as thedrum never refembles the fiouriihes of the trur&pet, though playedon in a thoufand diflimilar modes. CERTAIN ADDITIONS. Some few inflances will fuffice to explain what I have juft of-fered, concerning the freedom of the foul of man, and the boundsin which it is confined : there exiiis countenances which appear toproclaim but one tendency, one particular diicrimination of action.Particular individuals within the bounds of their own circle, are heroes,
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