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... countenance . For if the central many are equally divided , we must call in the advice of the right minority , the pre - eminent few , or those among them who have made the subject their special study . Again , if a face is decreed by ...
... countenance . For if the central many are equally divided , we must call in the advice of the right minority , the pre - eminent few , or those among them who have made the subject their special study . Again , if a face is decreed by ...
Page 103
... countenance nor in anything else . is there any absolute and independent beauty or ugliness . We never admire a face for its own sake or for any direct utility which it may yield us , since another person's nose , for instance , is ...
... countenance nor in anything else . is there any absolute and independent beauty or ugliness . We never admire a face for its own sake or for any direct utility which it may yield us , since another person's nose , for instance , is ...
Page 104
... countenance and feel attracted to- wards the possessor of it . No face is ever admired but some predilection is felt for its owner . Did we believe that no connection were traceable between a corporeal feature and a mental quality , we ...
... countenance and feel attracted to- wards the possessor of it . No face is ever admired but some predilection is felt for its owner . Did we believe that no connection were traceable between a corporeal feature and a mental quality , we ...
Page 105
... countenance . It is not pretended that any one is suffi- ciently skilled in physiognomy to be able to read all these changes ; it is simply proposed that while some of these alterations are so legible that almost every one can read them ...
... countenance . It is not pretended that any one is suffi- ciently skilled in physiognomy to be able to read all these changes ; it is simply proposed that while some of these alterations are so legible that almost every one can read them ...
Page 106
... countenance , her spotless purity of skin , her delicate regularity of mouth and eyes and nose , her upright car- riage , her glossy locks flowing down over her shoulders , her cleanliness of garment and her whole picture bespeak a mind ...
... countenance , her spotless purity of skin , her delicate regularity of mouth and eyes and nose , her upright car- riage , her glossy locks flowing down over her shoulders , her cleanliness of garment and her whole picture bespeak a mind ...
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æsthetic analogies appear associations Author beauty birds called capable cause Chinese cloth College colour contempt countenance Crown 8vo Demy 8vo DICTIONARY disgust emotion of admiration English Essay F. W. Newman fact Falstaff Fcap feeling flowers George Henry Lewes German GRAMMAR human Illustrations India innate power intellect inutility inverse J. G. Fichte Joseph Edkins LANGUAGE less light LL.D look matter Max Müller mean mind moral motion nature never Notes object odour ornament ourselves Percy Greg persons phenomena physiognomy Plates pleasant poem poet poetic poetry Post 8vo Post free principle Professor Published by Trübner qualities Ralph T. H. Griffith recognise RELIGION retina Royal 8vo Sanskrit Second Edition sensations sewed shape Songs star sublime suggested power things thou thought tion Translated ugly unpleasant utility vibrations viii Vocabulary W. R. Greg words
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