Essays On Physiognomy; Calculated to Extend the Knowledge And the Love of Mankind V. 4
The book Essays On Physiognomy; Calculated to Extend the Knowledge And the Love of Mankind V. 4 was written by author Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801 Here you can read free online of Essays On Physiognomy; Calculated to Extend the Knowledge And the Love of Mankind V. 4 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Essays On Physiognomy; Calculated to Extend the Knowledge And the Love of Mankind V. 4 a good or bad book?
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Every thing here is evidently factitious ; half natwe^ half art, I know not what to make of it. 4. Here is one phyfionomy more, vvhofe charafter is, that it has none. It is a mixture of Nature and Art, of flefli and flone, of great and infipid traits ; in a word, the production of a man- neriit running after the ideal. Never did Nature form fuch a forehead, nor fuch eyes, nor fuch a nofe, nor fuch hair. All this is without charader, without temperament ; and were vou even to take the lower part... for fanguine-phlegmatic, what would you fay of the nofe, the form of ^yhich is fo elegant, and which ceafea to be natural, becaiiie the Painter has taken pains to play the mannerift ? On thefirft look, this figure fuggefts the idea of the head of St. John ; but examine it clofely, and it finks 'mx
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