Essays on Physiognomy: For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind, Volume 3C. Whittingham, 1804 |
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... speak of arched foreheads . All foreheads are arched . Innumerable VOL . III . noses are arched ; the most witty and the most VOL III EXTRACTS from authors, with remarks Page A Some physiognomonical extracts from an essay inserted in ...
... speak of arched foreheads . All foreheads are arched . Innumerable VOL . III . noses are arched ; the most witty and the most VOL III EXTRACTS from authors, with remarks Page A Some physiognomonical extracts from an essay inserted in ...
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... speak of the whole scull ) approaches a semispherical form , the more is it weak , effeminate , and incapable of re- flection ; and this I speak from repeated experience . The more straight lines a fore- head has , the less capacious ...
... speak of the whole scull ) approaches a semispherical form , the more is it weak , effeminate , and incapable of re- flection ; and this I speak from repeated experience . The more straight lines a fore- head has , the less capacious ...
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... his limbs firm , his countenance is come- ly , and beard ornamental . By imitating his body the Greeks have thought proper to honour their deities . " Oh that I could speak with sufficient force ! Oh 16 B Extracts from Maximus Tyrius.
... his limbs firm , his countenance is come- ly , and beard ornamental . By imitating his body the Greeks have thought proper to honour their deities . " Oh that I could speak with sufficient force ! Oh 16 B Extracts from Maximus Tyrius.
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... speak with sufficient force ! Oh that I could find faith enough with my readers to convince them how frequently my soul seems exalted above itself , while I con- template the unspeakably miraculous nature of the human body ! Oh that all ...
... speak with sufficient force ! Oh that I could find faith enough with my readers to convince them how frequently my soul seems exalted above itself , while I con- template the unspeakably miraculous nature of the human body ! Oh that all ...
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... speaking , is cheer- ful , and black gloomy and terrific , is the consequence of our love of light , which acts so degenerately , as it were , upon some ani- mals , that they will throw themselves into the fire ; and of our abhorrence ...
... speaking , is cheer- ful , and black gloomy and terrific , is the consequence of our love of light , which acts so degenerately , as it were , upon some ani- mals , that they will throw themselves into the fire ; and of our abhorrence ...
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Page 55 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
Page 51 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 52 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 48 - Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme : 29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation : 30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
Page 55 - But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 44 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Page 45 - The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Page 53 - For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past rinding out!
Page 53 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour...
Page 46 - Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth : 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.