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... sense , of discerning the character of the mind from the features of the face ; or , the art of discovering the predominant qualities of the mind and the temper , by the form of the body , especially by the outward signs of the ...
... sense , of discerning the character of the mind from the features of the face ; or , the art of discovering the predominant qualities of the mind and the temper , by the form of the body , especially by the outward signs of the ...
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... sense of smell , which is additionally brought into immediate use , and which must be of some latent magnetic service such as we with our less capable nasal organs fail to fully realize . Again , the horse certainly distinguishes the ...
... sense of smell , which is additionally brought into immediate use , and which must be of some latent magnetic service such as we with our less capable nasal organs fail to fully realize . Again , the horse certainly distinguishes the ...
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... sense ; Here Heav'n an elegance of form denies , But wisdom the defect of form supplies ; In outward show Heav'n gives one to excel , But Heav'n denies him praise of thinking well . " “ With regard to strength and honesty of charac- ter ...
... sense ; Here Heav'n an elegance of form denies , But wisdom the defect of form supplies ; In outward show Heav'n gives one to excel , But Heav'n denies him praise of thinking well . " “ With regard to strength and honesty of charac- ter ...
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... which I had seen many a time in our boyhood , and which meant . I knew , that his pride had set iron- hard , and that his senses would fail him long before his courage . " Joe Berks in the meanwhile had swaggered in , 50 OUR OUTSIDES.
... which I had seen many a time in our boyhood , and which meant . I knew , that his pride had set iron- hard , and that his senses would fail him long before his courage . " Joe Berks in the meanwhile had swaggered in , 50 OUR OUTSIDES.
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... sense of injury could break into that serene insensibility . Time ! ' was duly called ; and the Jews , seeing that the affair was over , let their man's head fall back with a crack upon the floor ; and there he lay , his huge arms and ...
... sense of injury could break into that serene insensibility . Time ! ' was duly called ; and the Jews , seeing that the affair was over , let their man's head fall back with a crack upon the floor ; and there he lay , his huge arms and ...
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animals Beard beauty betokens body bone brain character characteristic Charles Dickens Charles Lamb Charlotte Corday cheeks chin colour countenance denotes disposition Dombey and Son ears Empress Eugénie endowed English expression eyes face fact faculty famous feet Fingers forehead Gall give grey habit Hand head heart human indicates individual instance instinct James Quin jaws Jehonadab John Brown's body Julius Cæsar lady laugh less likewise Lips lived look Lord Brougham Lord Crawford Lord Tomnoddy manner matter Max O'Rell ment mental mind mouth Nails nature neck Nervous never Nose observed organ palm person Phrenologists Physiognomy poets possessed red Hair remarkable Roman round says séance seen sense Shakespeare shape skull smell sneeze Snub soul Spatulate square sucking Teeth tell Temperament thee thick thing Thomas Hood thought Thumb tion Voice walk wear whilst woman women Wrinkles
Popular passages
Page 29 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Page 13 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I. Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
Page 61 - My father lived at Blenheim then, yon little stream hard by; they burnt his dwelling to the ground, and he was forced to fly: so with his wife and child he fled, nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 197 - Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least— at least I mean what I say — that's the same thing, you know.
Page 97 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Page 263 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 265 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Page 8 - THE human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth...
Page 31 - For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given [us] for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
Page 4 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...